Re: Tuning TSM
Hello Ignacio,
I had performance problems with TSM too. (I still have
in another installation too :p) ... After fixing the
networks problems (to 100/full duplex) performance
was still poor.
I don't know what version you are using but in my case
I had to change the TCPWINDOWSIZE in the client
options file to 63 (default is 32) , and now I'm
backing up 11 GB in 1 hour which is pretty good ...
Hope it helps
Sandra
--- Ignacio Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Lindsey:
I've been walking around once and again about
networking configuration,
then with disk i/o performance, then with how is
configurated on disk
the storage pool (if it was in raid 5, or in raid 1
or in raid 10...).
Those servers are connected through gigabit ethernet
channels, and they
are offering from 50 to 75 MBytes/sec. I believe
that throughput is very
low, but Tivoli's people (here) insisted in other
factors (disk i/o,
configuration of raids, etc)
I'll try your reccomendation, I have not all
neccesary values from our
switches now.
Thanks
Ignacio
-Mensaje original-
De: lt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Enviado el: Miircoles, 15 de Mayo de 2002 19:42
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: Re: Tuning TSM
Hi,
Be sure to set ALL parameters for the nic cards
correctly
to match the
ports on the switches.
Ensure that ALL 'no options' are set correctly
for your
environment.
Example:
AIX 433_ML_08:
100MB ethernet nic cards have the xmit/recieve
buffer pools
maxed out
100MB ethernet nic cards have the speed/duplex
set to match
switch ports
'no options' are set via an /etc/rc.{filename}
called via
/etc/inittab via:
rctunenet:2:wait:/etc/rc.tunenet /dev/console
21 #Tune
Network Parms
example:
/etc/rc.tunenet
if [ -f /usr/sbin/no ]
then
thewall=$(/usr/sbin/no -o thewall | awk '{
print $3 }')
if [ $thewall -lt 4096 ]
then
/usr/sbin/no -d thewall
else
print thewall is set to $thewall - left as is
fi
/usr/sbin/no -d thewall
/usr/sbin/no -d sb_max
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_sendspace=$thewall
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_recvspace=$thewall
/usr/sbin/no -o udp_sendspace=64000
/usr/sbin/no -o udp_recvspace=64000
/usr/sbin/no -o net_malloc_police=32768
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_mssdflt=1452
/usr/sbin/no -o ipqmaxlen=150
/usr/sbin/no -o rfc1323=1
fi
print Network parameters tuned...
By allowing AIX_ML_08 to figure out the best
settings for
thewall/sb_max, no -d thewall/sb_max, I do not
have to go
thru the issue
of calculating it anymore!!!
Having gone thru the above scenario, my 100MB
ethernet cloud
performs
at, a minimum, 10MB/sec. A lot of the network
traffic is logged at:
11MB/sec.
We are now implementing a GIG ethernet network
and I am
looking forward
to working with it as well.
HTH.
Mr. Lindsey Thomson
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I never waste memory on things that can easily be
stored
and retrieved from elsewhere.- Albert
Einstein
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord -
Psalm 33:12
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it
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its pupils- Hector Berloiz
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Ignacio Vidal wrote:
Hi:
I'm managing a pretty small TSM installation
with 4 RS/6K
machines (2
6M1 and 2 6H1) running AIX 4.3.3 (ML9).
TSM software consists of the server (running in
a 6M1 - 7Gb
RAM), and
the clients running in the same machine and on
the others.
I4ve got the following situation:
- the total of data backed up is about 200Gb's,
- 4 servers are connected using gigabit ethernet
links (and
have 6Gb RAM
and 7Gb RAM each model 6H1 and 6M1 respectively)
- TSM uses a storage pool of 240Gb on FastT500
disks (those are
connected by FC channels)
- TSM uses a 3581 library (LTO) with 1 drive,
The fact is (for the same set of information):
When I do an archive backup operation with TSM,
the time
elapsed rounds
5 hours (TSM writes right to the tape).
When I do an incremental backup operation, TSM
uses about
6:30hs for it
(TSM writes to storage pool).
I'm looking for a rational approach to solve
this
problem: isn't it
more fast writing to storage pool (disk) that to
tape?
Anyone had the same performance problem?
Is it really a performance problem?
I would like some commentaries about this, I can
provide
some info about
the configuration of TSM and the AIX servers.
Regards
Ignacio
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Re: solaris tsm server
Gerald, device file /dev/rmt/0mt is for drive, not for library. You should have in your /dev/rmt directory something like xlb, where x is number which depend on the order, in which you run add_drv commands for drives and library. It does not matter what this number is, but you have to have this file in your /dev/rmt directory and use it in def libr command. Sample content of my directory /dev/rmt is: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 45 Feb 22 15:03 0lb - ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/lb@0,0:lb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 46 Feb 22 15:03 0lbt - ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/lb@0,0:lbt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 45 Feb 22 15:03 1mt - ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/mt@5,0:mt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 46 Feb 22 15:03 1mtn - ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/mt@5,0:mtn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 46 Feb 22 15:03 1mtt - ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/mt@5,0:mtt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 45 Feb 22 15:03 2mt - ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/mt@6,0:mt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 46 Feb 22 15:03 2mtn - ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/mt@6,0:mtn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 46 Feb 22 15:03 2mtt - ../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3/mt@6,0:mtt Ing. Jozef Zatko Login a.s. Dlha 2, Stupava tel.: (421) (2) 60252618 I'm not all that familiar with running TSM on solaris.. trying to configure an ATL tape library on a test box I have here. When I define the library it crashes the TSM server: 05/14/02 17:58:01 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DEFINE LIBR lib_tape_1 libt=scsi devi=/dev/rmt/0mt 05/14/02 18:09:14 ANRD mmstxn.c(219): ThreadId42 Lock acquisition (sLock) failed for MMS universe lock. 05/14/02 18:09:14 ANR2033E QUERY LIBRARY: Command failed - lock conflict. 05/14/02 18:09:14 ANRD mmstxn.c(219): ThreadId40 Lock acquisition (sLock) failed for MMS universe lock. 05/14/02 18:09:14 ANR2033E QUERY LIBRARY: Command failed - lock conflict. 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANR7824S Server operation terminated. 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANR7823S Internal error LOCKCYCLE02 detected. 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANRD Trace-back of called functions: 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANRD 0x0001000837CC pkAbort 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANRD 0x000100083858 pkLogicAbort 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANRD 0x0001009865EC CheckLockCycles 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANRD 0x000100982080 TmFindDeadlock 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANRD 0x000100981D60 TmDeadlockDetector 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANRD 0x000100087818 StartThread 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANRD 0x7EC1F844 *UNKNOWN* 05/14/2002 18:12:57 ANRD 0x000100087710 StartThread my question is whats going on here? It's possible I suppose I might have the device wrong.. It's fairly likely I don't have the ATL library device driver loaded as well. How would I check this on solaris? How do I determine what device the library and it's drives are? I'm guessing that's probably my problem here (a lack of solaris knowledge). Appreciate any feedback. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w)
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Re: Not able to use additional cartridge slots
We have a StorageTek 9710 library and there is a configuration option on the library to convert it from 1/3 to 2/3 capacity etc. Could this be the same for your L700? Andrew David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 16/05/2002 03:25:17 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Andrew Collyer/Strategic Development/YWS/Yorkshire Water) Subject: Re: Not able to use additional cartridge slots I believe all that is necessary when upgrading slots on a library is to halt and restart TSM server and it picks up new config. I have done this when upgrading am IBM 3575 library. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/15/02 05:34PM You have to re-create the library - checkout libvols remove=no - delete library - create library - checkin libv Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Not able to use additional cartridge slots Good morning, TSM 4.1.4 running on AIX 4.3.3 I recently upgrade my StorageTek L700 tape library slot capacity from 216 to 384. When I tried to add tapes beyond the old storage space, I was getting ANR8314E Library is full message. Does any one know how to make TSM to recognize and use the new slots? TIA __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 05/15/02 22:40:30 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. == The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available at http://www.keldagroup.com/email.htm Yorkshire Water Services Limited Registered Office Western House Halifax Road Bradford BD6 2SZ Registered in England and Wales No 2366682
Re: Hi, help me!!
Hi, was the answer of Tim Rushforth of no help? Usually pending is for polling mode and means it is time for the schedule to start but schedule is not yet started due to randomization (according to server clock). According to node clock schedule is at later time if it did not contacted server since. Wait for schedprompt interval. what is the schedmode for the clients? They may need to contact server once to get new time of the schedule. This new time from node's point of view is similar to re-schedule. On second attempt they should be fine. I hope this helps a bit. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Hi, help me!! Hi, Krastev, I'm sorry that I'm sending this urgent mail. I don't have nobody to ask. I have TSM server on AIX. I had to reboot TSM and AIX due to time zone change. Then I noticed all the client schedules missed. I tested restarting baclient on one of client node and its event worked, but not others. When it reaches the scheduled time, it gives status msg 'pending'. Do all baclients need to be restarted to pick up the new time and start their regular schedules? Thanks for help. Jin Bae Chi (Gus) Data Center 614-287-2496 614-287-5488 Fax e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/15/02 05:14PM Are you able using dd if=/dev/zero to create file of this size. If you can problem is in TSM. But until then you cannot be sure there is something in HP-UX settings. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:HP-UX restore problem We recently ran into an odd problem restoring files to an HP-UX 11.0 system with 4.1.2.0 client software. The TSM server is at 4.2.1.9 and runs under OS/390. We received the following error messages: 05/05/02 11:57:26 ANS4025E Error processing '/db/tjfrev6/MUMPS.EXT': file exceeds user or system file limit 05/05/02 11:57:26 ANS4025E Error processing '/db/tjfrev6/MUMPS.EXT': file exceeds user or system file limit 05/05/02 12:56:15 ANS4025E Error processing '/db/tjfserv6/MUMPS.EXT': file exceeds user or system file limit 05/05/02 12:56:15 ANS4025E Error processing '/db/tjfserv6/MUMPS.EXT': file exceeds user or system file limit We discovered that each of the restored files was 2,147,483,136 bytes long. The dsmsched.log entries for the backups of the files were still around, and showed a length of 2,147,483,647 bytes for each of the files, which is 511 bytes more than the length of each of the restored files. The original length turns out to be 2**31-1. The HP-UX administrator contacted HP, who had him check a variety of system settings. After reviewing the settings HP was adamant that there was nothing in the system configuration to prevent TSM from writing files of the original length. The restore process had one unusual feature. When the files were backed up /db/tjfrev6 and /db/tjfserv6 were file systems. When the files were restored /db/tjfrev6 and /db/tjfserv6 were ordinary directories within the /db file system. The loss of 511 bytes had no visible effect on the application that used the files. This is not quite as surprising as it sounds. The application treats each of its database files as a collection of 2048 byte blocks. The original length would have included 2047 bytes that did not fit into a block. Even though we dodged the bullet in this case, we are worried about running into this problem in the future. Is this a known problem?
TDP for Oracle and Tru64
Hello everyone. Has anybody got experience in backing up an Oracle DB on Tru64 greater than 1TB? The most important question is: how fast is it, is it faster than (sorry for that) Legato NetWorker? I'll be very glad of any comments about TSM + TDP for oracle. Regards KKus
Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and backups
Hi there, Env: TSM server for MVS v4.2.0.0 with about 200 client nodes At last time I had noted TSM server hangs when expire inventory or audit license processes are running. Some client backup sessions and all processes (migrations including audit or expire itself) are freezed, otherwise administration is possible. After recycling TSM server all gone OK. My question: Is there some restrictions to simultaneous running of expire inventory (or audit license) and migrations (or client backups)? Is it posible that these two precesses can definitely hangs all other server work? The system that I mentioned is relatively high-loaded and there is hard to avoid collisions with backups. Any help will be appreciated. Sorry for my english :-) Tom
Installing TSM Client on CRAY J916
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Re: Virtualnodename issue concerning Windows and AIX
Hi Ilja! I don't think it's a filespace renaming problem. I think you are running into the fact that once you connect with a newer client version, you can't go back to an old version. This is stated in the readme: - Data that has been backed up or archived from a TSM V4.2 client using the encryption feature, or from any TSM V4.2 Windows client, cannot be restored or retrieved to any previous level client, regardless of the TSM server level. The data must be restored or retrieved by a V4.2.0 or higher level client. Personally I don't see this as a bug. One just should not connect to TSM pretending to be another user as long as you are using different client levels or OS. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Ilja G. Coolen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 17:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virtualnodename issue concerning Windows and AIX Hello there, We stumbled onto the following problem, the hard way i may add. We have a mixed environment using AIX, Windows NT/2K and Sun Solaris. The Sun and NT boxes all run a very recent TSM client level. Some AIX boxes are running TSM client code by now as well, but most of the aren't on AIX 4.3.3 yet, so we can't upgrade them all. Our TSM server runs on AIX 4.3.3.x at level 4.2.1.9. Here comes the problem. One of our DBA's connected to TSM server using a windows tsm client, pretending to be a certain AIX node. Due to the optionsettings, the AUTOFSRENAME action kicked in, updating the FS information on that AIX box. The q node showed the following. tsm: ABPTSM1q node rs6sv090* Node Name Platform Policy Domain Days Since Days Since Locked? Name Last Acce- Password ss Set - -- -- -- --- RS6SV090 AIX DOMRS_TST 1 1 No RS6SV090Z WinNTDOMRS_TST 1 182 No The *Z node is the renamed version, so we could continue the backups to the original node name, being rs6sv090. As you can see, the *Z AIX box is shown as a NT box. Huh?! When connecting the original node from the AIX command line, we are told that the client is down-level, so we cannot connect. No backups or restores are possible using the original node. No backups or restores are possible from any AIX node, no mather which client code we run. To make the original data available, we exported the *Z data, and imported it into the original nodename, without updating the client information using the replacedefs=no option during the import. This took a while though. I think it's not such a good functionality, that we can use a windows tsm client to connect as an AIX box, rendering the AIX data unavailable. To me, this feels like a BUG. I'm working on the following questions: Did any of you run into such a problem too? Does anyone know of a way to prevent someone from performing the connect like this? Is this problem known to Tivoli? If yes, what is being done on this issue? Any comment is appreciated. kind regards. Ilja G. Coolen ABP / USZO CIS / BS / TB / Storage Management Telefoon: +31(0)45 579 7938 Fax: +31(0)45 579 3990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Centrale Mailbox: Centrale Mailbox - Storage BS/TB (eumbx05) - Everybody has a photographic memory, some just don't have film. - ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: Performance again!!!
How long does the migration to tape take after backup to disk? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Performance again!!! Hello everybody, It seems like TSM performance problems will neer end!!! Here is the new problem: The customer is running TSM 4.2.1.0 on a Windows 2000 server machine . An IBM rack case 82XX which contains a Quantum DLT8000 tape drive is connected to the server. The driver version for the Quantum DLT drive is 1.5 and is installed on the W2K machine. We tried a backup of 350MB on the local server with the Windows 2000 Backup utility and it took us approximately 75 seconds . Next , we tried the same Backup from TSM using its Device Driver and it took us about 9 minutes . We tried switching TSM to use the Native device driver but still we got the same performance result . So we upgraded to 4.2.2 ; In the Device Manager for TSM,we can see that TSMSCSI.exe is upgraded to 4.2.2.25 and the ADSMSCSI.sys is 4.2.2.3 . The server has a version of 4.2.2.25 . Still , we obtained poor backup performance . We suspected that maybe it was a database bottleneck ( eventhough it is still empty) ; so we tried the same Backup using TSM but the destination was on the HardDisk. The performance was good and the backup finished within 75seconds . So, we can eliminate the database problem. Also, we noticed with version 4.2.2.0 that it is crashing frequently . It was exiting abnormally . On the site of tivoli, the latest version of TSM server is 4.2.2 . We do not have the 5.1 release . does anyone have a suggestion? thx a lot Sandra __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Re: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and back ups
Hi Tom! I have seen this too a few days ago on my AIX server, running TSM 4.2.2.0. It looks like some kind of deadlock on a logpage. You will see that the expire inventory is just hanging and that one of your backup sessions is hanging too. You don't have to recycle the server though. As soon as you cancel the hanging client session, the expire inventory process continues. I haven't seen an APAR or fix for it, but since Tivoli implemented a the command SHOW LOGPINNED in 4.2.2.1 I think it's a known problem. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Tom Hrouda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and backups Hi there, Env: TSM server for MVS v4.2.0.0 with about 200 client nodes At last time I had noted TSM server hangs when expire inventory or audit license processes are running. Some client backup sessions and all processes (migrations including audit or expire itself) are freezed, otherwise administration is possible. After recycling TSM server all gone OK. My question: Is there some restrictions to simultaneous running of expire inventory (or audit license) and migrations (or client backups)? Is it posible that these two precesses can definitely hangs all other server work? The system that I mentioned is relatively high-loaded and there is hard to avoid collisions with backups. Any help will be appreciated. Sorry for my english :-) Tom ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: AIX Backups on TSM
Hi, try to create an include-exclude list and do not to put the exclude statement in the dsm.sys file -herf Crawford, Lindy [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 16.05.2002 13:04:17 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:AIX Backups on TSM HI TSMers I have put an exlcude statement in my dsm.sys file on AIX 4.3.3, TSM 4.2.1. It is suppose to exclude filesystems, but it is still backing it upPlease check below and verify the dsm.sys option for me:- SErvername boetsm1n COMMmethod TCPip TCPPort1500 TCPServeraddress 163.199.130.6 PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE tcpwin 64 tcpbuf 32 txnbytel 2097152 errorlogret 14 schedlogret 14 exclude /db2/PRD/sapdata* As you can see above I want to exclude all the sapdata filesystems...I've even tried listing them individually but for some reason it is still backing it up. HELP Lindy Crawford Business Solutions: IT BoE Corporate * +27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: Any unauthorised use or interception of this email is illegal. If this email is not intended for you, you may not copy, distribute nor disclose the contents to anyone. Save for bona fide company matters, the BoE Group does not accept any responsibility for the opinions expressed in this email. For further details please see: http://www.nbs.co.za/emaildisclaim.htm
Re: TSM 5.1 and Backtrack compatibility
Thanks, I'm doing this now. Regards, Anderson The different BMC SQL Backtrack packages are developed by different folks so there is NO single answer to your question. I use SQL Backtrack for Informix and when I get to the point where this becomes an issue, I will call 1-800-537-1813 (BMC support) and talk to the SQL Backtrack for Informix team and ask them about their interoperability testing. In theory, the shared library stuff that TSM does should work with anyone else's XBSA library (as provided by BMC). George Lesho System/Storage Admin AFC Enterprises Anderson F. Nobre To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) OM.BR Subject: TSM 5.1 and Backtrack compatibility Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 05/14/2002 01:45 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi all, Does any body know where I can find information about TSM 5.1 compatibility with BackTrack/OBSI? Regards, Anderson
Re: Performance again!!!
Hello, we didn't try that one ... Is there any reason for the migration from disk to tape to be faster than backup from disk to tape? thx Sandra --- Zlatko Krastev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long does the migration to tape take after backup to disk? Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Performance again!!! Hello everybody, It seems like TSM performance problems will neer end!!! Here is the new problem: The customer is running TSM 4.2.1.0 on a Windows 2000 server machine . An IBM rack case 82XX which contains a Quantum DLT8000 tape drive is connected to the server. The driver version for the Quantum DLT drive is 1.5 and is installed on the W2K machine. We tried a backup of 350MB on the local server with the Windows 2000 Backup utility and it took us approximately 75 seconds . Next , we tried the same Backup from TSM using its Device Driver and it took us about 9 minutes . We tried switching TSM to use the Native device driver but still we got the same performance result . So we upgraded to 4.2.2 ; In the Device Manager for TSM,we can see that TSMSCSI.exe is upgraded to 4.2.2.25 and the ADSMSCSI.sys is 4.2.2.3 . The server has a version of 4.2.2.25 . Still , we obtained poor backup performance . We suspected that maybe it was a database bottleneck ( eventhough it is still empty) ; so we tried the same Backup using TSM but the destination was on the HardDisk. The performance was good and the backup finished within 75seconds . So, we can eliminate the database problem. Also, we noticed with version 4.2.2.0 that it is crashing frequently . It was exiting abnormally . On the site of tivoli, the latest version of TSM server is 4.2.2 . We do not have the 5.1 release . does anyone have a suggestion? thx a lot Sandra __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Re: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and back ups
Another variation on the theme: On a 4.1.4.1 server here we see the 'log pinned' situation a LOT - very heavily abused server. One of the oddities is that once we clear the sessions, and do an incremental db backup, the log utilization doesn't drop until we issue an expire inventory command. Running an expire inventory drives log utilization up at an extremely high rate on this server, consequently expiration has not completed on this server in a very long time. I'm shutting down all other activity on the server over a 24 hour period this weekend to see if we can force a full expiration and hopefully that will alleviate the symptoms a bit. -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and back ups Hi Tom! I have seen this too a few days ago on my AIX server, running TSM 4.2.2.0. It looks like some kind of deadlock on a logpage. You will see that the expire inventory is just hanging and that one of your backup sessions is hanging too. You don't have to recycle the server though. As soon as you cancel the hanging client session, the expire inventory process continues. I haven't seen an APAR or fix for it, but since Tivoli implemented a the command SHOW LOGPINNED in 4.2.2.1 I think it's a known problem. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Tom Hrouda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and backups Hi there, Env: TSM server for MVS v4.2.0.0 with about 200 client nodes At last time I had noted TSM server hangs when expire inventory or audit license processes are running. Some client backup sessions and all processes (migrations including audit or expire itself) are freezed, otherwise administration is possible. After recycling TSM server all gone OK. My question: Is there some restrictions to simultaneous running of expire inventory (or audit license) and migrations (or client backups)? Is it posible that these two precesses can definitely hangs all other server work? The system that I mentioned is relatively high-loaded and there is hard to avoid collisions with backups. Any help will be appreciated. Sorry for my english :-) Tom ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: Antw: Re: TDP 4 Exchange,relationship between Full andIncremental Bac kup
Del, Seay, thanks for help. I had read the chapters at the TDP book before I asked the group and know I even understand it. Know I can ask my next question ;-) Wolfgang Del Hoobler [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15.05.02 12:47:41 My question point to this: To restore exchange I need one fullbackup or one fullbackup and a set of incrementals or one differential backup. However, I need one fullbackup. How can I or TDP secure that there is a correct set of full and incremental backups to restore from an incremental backup? Wolfgang, You are correct, to restore an Exchange server you need, ONE of the following: 1 Full backup (already has the logs it needs to recover) or 1 Full backup + NN incremental backups or 1 Full backup + 1 latest differential backup This is covered in Chapter 1 of the TDP for Exchange book under a section titled TDP for Exchange Backup Strategy Considerations TDP for Exchange version 2.2 will always keep the latest FULL backup until another FULL backup is completed succesfully. It will NOT expire any INCREMENTAL or DIFFERENTIAL backups that go with the latest FULL backup until the next FULL backup is completed succesfully. I hope that helps. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Leave everything a little better than you found it. - Smile a lot: it costs nothing and is beyond price.
Re: AIX Backups on TSM
Hi Lindy! You said that it's supposed to exclude filesystems. In that case state exclude.fs /db2/PRD/sapdata* Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Crawford, Lindy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 13:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Backups on TSM HI TSMers I have put an exlcude statement in my dsm.sys file on AIX 4.3.3, TSM 4.2.1. It is suppose to exclude filesystems, but it is still backing it upPlease check below and verify the dsm.sys option for me:- SErvername boetsm1n COMMmethod TCPip TCPPort1500 TCPServeraddress 163.199.130.6 PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE tcpwin 64 tcpbuf 32 txnbytel 2097152 errorlogret 14 schedlogret 14 exclude /db2/PRD/sapdata* As you can see above I want to exclude all the sapdata filesystems...I've even tried listing them individually but for some reason it is still backing it up. HELP Lindy Crawford Business Solutions: IT BoE Corporate * +27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: Any unauthorised use or interception of this email is illegal. If this email is not intended for you, you may not copy, distribute nor disclose the contents to anyone. Save for bona fide company matters, the BoE Group does not accept any responsibility for the opinions expressed in this email. For further details please see: http://www.nbs.co.za/emaildisclaim.htm ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
TSM server on a NAS device
Hello again, I've read somewhere that it's possible to install TSM server on a NAS system but only to perform local backups ... I can't find this again!!! All the papers I'm finding put the TSM server on another machine... Does anyone know if NAS support a server to be installed on it? thx a lot Sandra __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
TDP 2.2 for Exchange remote control
Hi again, I've a new question concerning TDP 2.2 for Exchange. Sorry, but we are migrating to Exchange this summer. Is there a way to handle the TDP-Clients at the Exchange Servers remote with TSM utilities? At the Backup/Archive Client from TSM I can do it via webclient. I'm missing anything like this for the TDP. Or must I go to all servers, if I want to change anything or control the backups? If there is no way to do this with Tivoli I must do it with other remoteutilities. Hope this will be my last question! TIA Wolfgang
Re: Tuning TSM
Run multiple concurrent client sessions... Run with TSM client compression... Go to disk first (to help facilitate the multiple concurrent sessions seeing how you only have one drive)... Get another drive ! ! ! (will really help when you have to run reclamation) I'm partial to 3590's but lots of folks are running LTO's for backups, look into resourceutilization for archives, just fire off multiple, if backing up a large DB run 25+ concurrently we archive a 3.1 TB SAP data base in 20 hours running 25 concurrent sessions with TSM client compression (compresses the info down to about 800 GB) and back over 100 Mb/sec fast ethernet (@ 40 GB/hr) across GigE we run about 70 GB/hr so do the same work in just 12 hours (or so)... just my 2 cents worth Dwight -Original Message- From: Ignacio Vidal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tuning TSM Hi: I'm managing a pretty small TSM installation with 4 RS/6K machines (2 6M1 and 2 6H1) running AIX 4.3.3 (ML9). TSM software consists of the server (running in a 6M1 - 7Gb RAM), and the clients running in the same machine and on the others. I´ve got the following situation: - the total of data backed up is about 200Gb's, - 4 servers are connected using gigabit ethernet links (and have 6Gb RAM and 7Gb RAM each model 6H1 and 6M1 respectively) - TSM uses a storage pool of 240Gb on FastT500 disks (those are connected by FC channels) - TSM uses a 3581 library (LTO) with 1 drive, The fact is (for the same set of information): When I do an archive backup operation with TSM, the time elapsed rounds 5 hours (TSM writes right to the tape). When I do an incremental backup operation, TSM uses about 6:30hs for it (TSM writes to storage pool). I'm looking for a rational approach to solve this problem: isn't it more fast writing to storage pool (disk) that to tape? Anyone had the same performance problem? Is it really a performance problem? I would like some commentaries about this, I can provide some info about the configuration of TSM and the AIX servers. Regards Ignacio
Re: TSM 5.1 and Backtrack compatibility
Thank you! Anderson, BMC tell me that SQL Backtrack is not yet supported by BMC for TSM 5.1. They are currently working on it. Their stance is that they will deliver within '90 days after GA'. This would take us to July, but I suspect it will be earlier - push your BMC rep. Regards Phil - Original Message - From: Anderson F. Nobre [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 6:45 AM Subject: TSM 5.1 and Backtrack compatibility Hi all, Does any body know where I can find information about TSM 5.1 compatibility with BackTrack/OBSI? Regards, Anderson
Re: TDP 2.2 for Exchange remote control
I've a new question concerning TDP 2.2 for Exchange. Sorry, but we are migrating to Exchange this summer. Is there a way to handle the TDP-Clients at the Exchange Servers remote with TSM utilities? At the Backup/Archive Client from TSM I can do it via webclient. I'm missing anything like this for the TDP. Or must I go to all servers, if I want to change anything or control the backups? If there is no way to do this with Tivoli I must do it with other remoteutilities. Wolfgang, There is no remote client like the TSM web client for the TDPs. We know about the requirement and it is logged in our requirements database. It is on our list of things to do. Until then, you will need to use remote utilities like Terminal Services, PCAnywhere, ReachOut, VNC, etc. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Leave everything a little better than you found it. - Smile a lot: it costs nothing and is beyond price.
Re: BMR TSM restore of W2K client
Thanks for the replies. I have passed them on to the requestor Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807 Rushforth, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/15/2002 03:48 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: BMR TSM restore of W2K client The Redbook was written with 4.1.2 client as a reference so there may be a few changes on your version: To change the options mentioned, do so before you click the restore tab. Later versions of the client no longer prompt (11b) when restoring the system object. I've noticed the system file protection messages a few times and ignored them! See MS Knowledge base article Q124550 regarding the missing or corrupt ntoskrnl.exe. (http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q124550) This could happen if there are a different # of partitions or in different order (check boot.ini to see if pointing to proper partition). I'm not familiar with Dells - do they have a system partition - if so was it set up? I've seen this on NT once where it failed to boot, we booted with an external partition, ran a defrag and then it could boot - it might have been explaned by method 3 in the ms article. Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BMR TSM restore of W2K client This is from a co-worker doing some DR testing, in this case, restoring a W2K box, essentially doing BMR ** I am trying to recreate the restore procedures in the IBM redbook Deploying Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows 2000. The procedure is outlined in the redbook indicated in chapter 6, starting on page 96. I am using a Dell, with Raid-5, Windows 2000 advanced server with all recent service packs. Server is part of workgroup, not a domain controller. Not in an AD environment. TSM 4.2.1.32 client for Windows 2000 I have built a test box, done several backups during the build to mimic a production server that changes over time. Wiped partition and recreated new RAID-5 partition with primary and logical drives The procedure follows as indicated hardware set up install same OS install service packs Ensure connectivity with TSM server Recreate drive partitions Install and configure TSM Run TSM Check consistency of system object Start TSM and select the restore tab ** At this point in the documentation there is a tip to change a setting in Edit / Preferences / General. The setting for Preferences is grayed out, and this tip therefore cannot be followed Restore the boot partition (parts a-e followed verbatim, including the no reboot indication) Restore the system object. This is where it gets odd. I am prompted for the Windows 2000 CD with the error message Windows File Protection - files that are required for Windows to run properly have been replaced by unrecognized versions. To maintain system stability, Windows must restore the original version of these files. Insert your Windows 2000 Advanced server CD now. I have tried both the Cancel and inserting the CD with the same results Also, the 3 prompts indicated in 11b (during the restore process) are not displayed Restart the system. When the system restarts, message is win2000 root\system32\ntoskrnl.exe is missing or corrupt and the OS does not start as this is an essential file.The ntoskrnl is in the directory indicated. I have tried this several times with the same results. I am obviously missing something in the procedure, but do not know where this goes awry. Any help is appreciated.
Re: Tuning TSM
Great for AIX, but does anyone have IP tuning parameters for Windows2000?
Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
lt
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tuning TSM
Hi,
Be sure to set ALL parameters for the nic cards correctly to match the
ports on the switches.
Ensure that ALL 'no options' are set correctly for your environment.
Example:
AIX 433_ML_08:
100MB ethernet nic cards have the xmit/recieve buffer pools maxed out
100MB ethernet nic cards have the speed/duplex set to match switch ports
'no options' are set via an /etc/rc.{filename} called via
/etc/inittab via:
rctunenet:2:wait:/etc/rc.tunenet /dev/console 21 #Tune Network Parms
example:
/etc/rc.tunenet
if [ -f /usr/sbin/no ]
then
thewall=$(/usr/sbin/no -o thewall | awk '{ print $3 }')
if [ $thewall -lt 4096 ]
then
/usr/sbin/no -d thewall
else
print thewall is set to $thewall - left as is
fi
/usr/sbin/no -d thewall
/usr/sbin/no -d sb_max
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_sendspace=$thewall
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_recvspace=$thewall
/usr/sbin/no -o udp_sendspace=64000
/usr/sbin/no -o udp_recvspace=64000
/usr/sbin/no -o net_malloc_police=32768
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_mssdflt=1452
/usr/sbin/no -o ipqmaxlen=150
/usr/sbin/no -o rfc1323=1
fi
print Network parameters tuned...
By allowing AIX_ML_08 to figure out the best settings for
thewall/sb_max, no -d thewall/sb_max, I do not have to go thru the issue
of calculating it anymore!!!
Having gone thru the above scenario, my 100MB ethernet cloud performs
at, a minimum, 10MB/sec. A lot of the network traffic is logged at:
11MB/sec.
We are now implementing a GIG ethernet network and I am looking forward
to working with it as well.
HTH.
Mr. Lindsey Thomson
BLDG:042/2F-065 IMA: 0422F065
11400 Burnet Rd., Austin, TX 78758
off) 512) 823 6522 / (TL) 793 6522
I never waste memory on things that can easily be stored
and retrieved from elsewhere.- Albert Einstein
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord - Psalm 33:12
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all
its pupils- Hector Berloiz
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Ignacio Vidal wrote:
Hi:
I'm managing a pretty small TSM installation with 4 RS/6K machines (2
6M1 and 2 6H1) running AIX 4.3.3 (ML9).
TSM software consists of the server (running in a 6M1 - 7Gb RAM), and
the clients running in the same machine and on the others.
I4ve got the following situation:
- the total of data backed up is about 200Gb's,
- 4 servers are connected using gigabit ethernet links (and have 6Gb RAM
and 7Gb RAM each model 6H1 and 6M1 respectively)
- TSM uses a storage pool of 240Gb on FastT500 disks (those are
connected by FC channels)
- TSM uses a 3581 library (LTO) with 1 drive,
The fact is (for the same set of information):
When I do an archive backup operation with TSM, the time elapsed rounds
5 hours (TSM writes right to the tape).
When I do an incremental backup operation, TSM uses about 6:30hs for it
(TSM writes to storage pool).
I'm looking for a rational approach to solve this problem: isn't it
more fast writing to storage pool (disk) that to tape?
Anyone had the same performance problem?
Is it really a performance problem?
I would like some commentaries about this, I can provide some info about
the configuration of TSM and the AIX servers.
Regards
Ignacio
Re: Virtualnodename issue concerning Windows and AIX
Eric, You are right about those statements. But the thing that scares me, is that it is at all possible to connect as an AIX node to TSM, using windows TSM client software, regardles of the version. You can train users to any extend, but you cannot always predict the actions they will take. What i would like to see, is that the TSM server prevents the update in the database for a specific node when the client platforms don't match, or when there is only read actions involved. Like queries or restores. Ilja G. Coolen _ ABP / USZO CIS / BS / TB / Storage Management Telefoon : +31(0)45 579 7938 Fax : +31(0)45 579 3990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intranet : Storage Web http://intranet/cis_bstb/html_content/sm/index_sm.htm _ - Everybody has a photographic memory, some just don't have film. - -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: donderdag 16 mei 2002 13:31 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: Virtualnodename issue concerning Windows and AIX Hi Ilja! I don't think it's a filespace renaming problem. I think you are running into the fact that once you connect with a newer client version, you can't go back to an old version. This is stated in the readme: - Data that has been backed up or archived from a TSM V4.2 client using the encryption feature, or from any TSM V4.2 Windows client, cannot be restored or retrieved to any previous level client, regardless of the TSM server level. The data must be restored or retrieved by a V4.2.0 or higher level client. Personally I don't see this as a bug. One just should not connect to TSM pretending to be another user as long as you are using different client levels or OS. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Ilja G. Coolen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 17:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virtualnodename issue concerning Windows and AIX Hello there, We stumbled onto the following problem, the hard way i may add. We have a mixed environment using AIX, Windows NT/2K and Sun Solaris. The Sun and NT boxes all run a very recent TSM client level. Some AIX boxes are running TSM client code by now as well, but most of the aren't on AIX 4.3.3 yet, so we can't upgrade them all. Our TSM server runs on AIX 4.3.3.x at level 4.2.1.9. Here comes the problem. One of our DBA's connected to TSM server using a windows tsm client, pretending to be a certain AIX node. Due to the optionsettings, the AUTOFSRENAME action kicked in, updating the FS information on that AIX box. The q node showed the following. tsm: ABPTSM1q node rs6sv090* Node Name Platform Policy Domain Days Since Days Since Locked? Name Last Acce- Password ss Set - -- -- -- --- RS6SV090 AIX DOMRS_TST 1 1 No RS6SV090Z WinNTDOMRS_TST 1 182 No The *Z node is the renamed version, so we could continue the backups to the original node name, being rs6sv090. As you can see, the *Z AIX box is shown as a NT box. Huh?! When connecting the original node from the AIX command line, we are told that the client is down-level, so we cannot connect. No backups or restores are possible using the original node. No backups or restores are possible from any AIX node, no mather which client code we run. To make the original data available, we exported the *Z data, and imported it into the original nodename, without updating the client information using the replacedefs=no option during the import. This took a while though. I think it's not such a good functionality, that we can use a windows tsm client to connect as an AIX box, rendering the AIX data unavailable. To me, this feels like a BUG. I'm working on the following questions: Did any of you run into such a problem too? Does anyone know of a way to prevent someone from performing the connect like this? Is this problem known to Tivoli? If yes, what is being done on this issue? Any comment is appreciated. kind regards. Ilja G. Coolen ABP / USZO CIS / BS / TB / Storage Management Telefoon: +31(0)45 579 7938 Fax: +31(0)45 579 3990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Centrale Mailbox: Centrale Mailbox - Storage BS/TB (eumbx05) - Everybody has a photographic memory, some just don't have film. - ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the
Re: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and back ups
I had that problem with expiration - my mail server kept pinning the process - When it finally ran to completion it took 4-5 days, and expired 16M files. Good luck! Jane %% Jane Bamberger IS Department Bassett Healthcare 607-547-4750 - Original Message - From: Jolliff, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:11 AM Subject: Re: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and back ups Another variation on the theme: On a 4.1.4.1 server here we see the 'log pinned' situation a LOT - very heavily abused server. One of the oddities is that once we clear the sessions, and do an incremental db backup, the log utilization doesn't drop until we issue an expire inventory command. Running an expire inventory drives log utilization up at an extremely high rate on this server, consequently expiration has not completed on this server in a very long time. I'm shutting down all other activity on the server over a 24 hour period this weekend to see if we can force a full expiration and hopefully that will alleviate the symptoms a bit. -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and back ups Hi Tom! I have seen this too a few days ago on my AIX server, running TSM 4.2.2.0. It looks like some kind of deadlock on a logpage. You will see that the expire inventory is just hanging and that one of your backup sessions is hanging too. You don't have to recycle the server though. As soon as you cancel the hanging client session, the expire inventory process continues. I haven't seen an APAR or fix for it, but since Tivoli implemented a the command SHOW LOGPINNED in 4.2.2.1 I think it's a known problem. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Tom Hrouda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and backups Hi there, Env: TSM server for MVS v4.2.0.0 with about 200 client nodes At last time I had noted TSM server hangs when expire inventory or audit license processes are running. Some client backup sessions and all processes (migrations including audit or expire itself) are freezed, otherwise administration is possible. After recycling TSM server all gone OK. My question: Is there some restrictions to simultaneous running of expire inventory (or audit license) and migrations (or client backups)? Is it posible that these two precesses can definitely hangs all other server work? The system that I mentioned is relatively high-loaded and there is hard to avoid collisions with backups. Any help will be appreciated. Sorry for my english :-) Tom ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Shutting down TSM on AIX
What is the preferred method of shutting down the TSM server on a AIX box when AIX is being rebooted? Is a kill command ok or is there a kinder way to shutdown TSM without using dsmadmc? David
Re: How does Archiving and Backupsets work???
Thanks for the help, I understand that the goal of primary and secondary pools is to make sure no data is lost due to an aging tape or an accident, but the archive tapes are sent to a different location than the normal backups, so I have to keep them separate. Is there any other way of doing this? And how do you identify backupset volumes? Thanks again, Etienne Brodeur You cannot mark primary stgpool volume as offsite. As per the help/Reference Guide: 3. This value is valid only for volumes in copy storage pools. You cannot overcome the TSM design. Still can use MOVe MEDia OVFLOcation='Your off-site vault'. However think twice is this what you want good enough! You are talking about archives, i.e. long-term storage. And what if tape ages and gets unreadable or courier drop it and is broken?! That is the idea behind primary and copy pools. And you can check out primary pools from the library if are short on slots. Backupsets are again providing you same non-duplicate (not secured) scenario. Their main goal is quick restore not long-term archiving. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:How does Archiving and Backupsets work??? When I archive a file space to ARCHIVEPOOL (a primary storage pool) I can't change the status of the volume to OFFSITE. Is there a way to archive files spaces to tape and sent them out without keeping a copy on a primary storage pool? In other words I would like my archives to be sent directly to a tape that will be going to the vault. Is this possible? Must I use a backupset to do this? I have created a backupset to try it out and I can't tell which tapes is used with which backupset... How or where can you track your backupset volumes? This is all I get when I query backupsets for the node in question: Node Name HAL Backup Set Name DOMHAL.502394 Server object ID for the client object 502394 Date/Time 2002-05-04 12:00:08.00 Retention Period 365 Description No Description Device Class Name LTOCLASSOFF It doesn't tell me which volume it is on!!! Thanks for the help, Etienne Brodeur
SCO UnixWare 5
Hey, I'm having a server running SCO UnixWare 5. Does anybody know if this server is supported by ADSM/TSM? and if so which version of then ADSM/TSM software I have to use? Thanks in advance Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Flemming Kold Madsen Systemkonsulent EuroTrust NetVaulting A/S P. Hiort Lorenzensvej 2 DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8210 2030 , Phone Direct: +45 8210 2032 , Fax: +45 8210 2020 Mailto: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , Website: http://www.netvaulting.com
Re: How does Archiving and Backupsets work???
To keep the archive separate, put them in a different primary/copy storage pool.
Best value for disk pool
We have a 3466 C00 (AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.1.0) using approx. 144gb of SSA disk for our db, logs, and several disk pools. We have reached a point of needing to add more disk for the db and pools, but because of budget cuts, the $$ for additional SSA disks is not looking good. It is time for us to consider using other types of direct attached disk for this system. Currently, we are not raid-ing the disk pool at all, and using tsm mirroring for the db. Can I get some feedback from those with experience using other vendor's disk systems on an AIX box. Cost, reliability, speed are of course the important metrics. I do understand that hooking up non-SSA disk probably means decoupling the 3466 and turning it into a standalone rs6k box. Anyone with tips on that path would also be appreciated. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer Haworth, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: How does Archiving and Backupsets work???
Thanks! That was pretty obvious when you think about it, but for some reason I didn't! Thanks again. David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/2002 11:12 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: How does Archiving and Backupsets work??? To keep the archive separate, put them in a different primary/copy storage pool.
Re: Tuning TSM
Dwight: LTO is performing good enough (for us), and we only have 1 drive. I was reading all hints exposed in the list, many of them have been implemented during last 2 months. We're using a disk storage pool, client compression, etc. I realize that we can explore a bit more resourceutilization parameter... Thanks Ignacio -Mensaje original- De: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: jueves, 16 de mayo de 2002 9:43 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: Tuning TSM Run multiple concurrent client sessions... Run with TSM client compression... Go to disk first (to help facilitate the multiple concurrent sessions seeing how you only have one drive)... Get another drive ! ! ! (will really help when you have to run reclamation) I'm partial to 3590's but lots of folks are running LTO's for backups, look into resourceutilization for archives, just fire off multiple, if backing up a large DB run 25+ concurrently we archive a 3.1 TB SAP data base in 20 hours running 25 concurrent sessions with TSM client compression (compresses the info down to about 800 GB) and back over 100 Mb/sec fast ethernet (@ 40 GB/hr) across GigE we run about 70 GB/hr so do the same work in just 12 hours (or so)... just my 2 cents worth Dwight -Original Message- From: Ignacio Vidal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tuning TSM Hi: I'm managing a pretty small TSM installation with 4 RS/6K machines (2 6M1 and 2 6H1) running AIX 4.3.3 (ML9). TSM software consists of the server (running in a 6M1 - 7Gb RAM), and the clients running in the same machine and on the others. I´ve got the following situation: - the total of data backed up is about 200Gb's, - 4 servers are connected using gigabit ethernet links (and have 6Gb RAM and 7Gb RAM each model 6H1 and 6M1 respectively) - TSM uses a storage pool of 240Gb on FastT500 disks (those are connected by FC channels) - TSM uses a 3581 library (LTO) with 1 drive, The fact is (for the same set of information): When I do an archive backup operation with TSM, the time elapsed rounds 5 hours (TSM writes right to the tape). When I do an incremental backup operation, TSM uses about 6:30hs for it (TSM writes to storage pool). I'm looking for a rational approach to solve this problem: isn't it more fast writing to storage pool (disk) that to tape? Anyone had the same performance problem? Is it really a performance problem? I would like some commentaries about this, I can provide some info about the configuration of TSM and the AIX servers. Regards Ignacio
Re: CFS NAS considerations on TSM
WE are running tsm 4.2.1.11 on aix 4.3.3 6 scsi drives 100MB ethernet connection If we want to do individual file restores, would NDMP tsm agent work for us? What other considerations should we be looking into? Pls let us know Thx This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. Ce courriel est confidentiel et protege. L'expediteur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) designe(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser immediatement, par retour de courriel ou par un autre moyen.
Re: dsmc sched as another user
Try using sudo. You can allow your non-root user execute only the dsmc command as root. I think this would allow the non-root user to execute dsmc as root with any operands, not just the 'sched' operand. This would be a serious security exposure. The non-root user could replace any file on the system with a copy of a different file or with an older version of the same file. If the non-root user had root permission on any other Unix client system the user could back up an arbitrary file there and restore it on the system where he or she was a non-root user. As far as I know, the only really safe way to do this is to write a program specifically to start the scheduler and make that program root owned, SUID, and executable by the user who needs to start the scheduler. Many Unix systems even today have a bug that makes SUID scripts dangerous. Unless you are certain that this bug is fixed on your system you will need to write the program in C or some other compiled language.
Re: dsmc sched as another user
I've never tried this on a LINUX client, but try putting the USERS option in the dsm.sys file: USERS myname yourname etc For *X clients, USERS specifies who (besides root) can execute dsm or dsmc. It's documented in the Using the UNIX clients book. -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dsmc sched as another user On linux when starting the dsmc sched process you need to be root. Otherwise it says ANS1817E Schedule function can only be run by a TSM authorized user. I'm trying to write a script that gets run by a non-root user to start the scheduler. Is it possible to get around this limitation somehow? I've tried chmod 4755 on dsmc and even that won't work. Looking up ANS1817E in the messages guide doesn't yield any useful information either. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w)
Re: HP-UX restore problem
Are you able using dd if=/dev/zero to create file of this size. If you can problem is in TSM. But until then you cannot be sure there is something in HP-UX settings. HP-UX 11.0 has no /dev/zero file. However, I was able to use the prealloc command to create a 2,147,483,647 byte file. I was also able to copy this file to a second file of the same size using either cp or dd.
Re: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and back ups
OK, now is question, how can I recognize hanging client session? (There is about 150 sessions at the time) I did q sess to file last time it happens, but all session were at Run state. In addition ... when I recognize it and cancel it, will the client reestablish session with server to end up backup? I see no good solution for this situation in automated manner (this is what I need), except of prevent it - this means write script to test if no client sessions are started at the time, disable clients, start expiration, and past it stops, enable clients. Any other idea? Tom -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and back ups Hi Tom! I have seen this too a few days ago on my AIX server, running TSM 4.2.2.0. It looks like some kind of deadlock on a logpage. You will see that the expire inventory is just hanging and that one of your backup sessions is hanging too. You don't have to recycle the server though. As soon as you cancel the hanging client session, the expire inventory process continues. I haven't seen an APAR or fix for it, but since Tivoli implemented a the command SHOW LOGPINNED in 4.2.2.1 I think it's a known problem. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Toma9 Hrouda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expire inventory (or audit license) hangs migrations and backups Hi there, Env: TSM server for MVS v4.2.0.0 with about 200 client nodes At last time I had noted TSM server hangs when expire inventory or audit license processes are running. Some client backup sessions and all processes (migrations including audit or expire itself) are freezed, otherwise administration is possible. After recycling TSM server all gone OK. My question: Is there some restrictions to simultaneous running of expire inventory (or audit license) and migrations (or client backups)? Is it posible that these two precesses can definitely hangs all other server work? The system that I mentioned is relatively high-loaded and there is hard to avoid collisions with backups. Any help will be appreciated. Sorry for my english :-) Tom ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: CFS NAS considerations on TSM
No. The NDMP agent does volume level backup/restore only. I don't know if you can restore in parallel with your six drives, probably, but they need to be attached to your NAS device. We backup our NAS devices through a TSM client who mounts the filespaces, thereby getting file level granularity, but poor performance. At SHARE the Tivoli gurus discussed at length whether we (TSM user population) really needed file level NDMP support, since the bar seems pretty high to achieve that. My feeling is this enhancement is down the road a ways. John At 11:16 AM 5/16/02 -0400, you wrote: WE are running tsm 4.2.1.11 on aix 4.3.3 6 scsi drives 100MB ethernet connection If we want to do individual file restores, would NDMP tsm agent work for us? What other considerations should we be looking into? Pls let us know Thx This e-mail may be privileged and/or confidential, and the sender does not waive any related rights and obligations. Any distribution, use or copying of this e-mail or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. If you received this e-mail in error, please advise me (by return e-mail or otherwise) immediately. Ce courriel est confidentiel et protege. L'expediteur ne renonce pas aux droits et obligations qui s'y rapportent. Toute diffusion, utilisation ou copie de ce message ou des renseignements qu'il contient par une personne autre que le (les) destinataire(s) designe(s) est interdite. Si vous recevez ce courriel par erreur, veuillez m'en aviser immediatement, par retour de courriel ou par un autre moyen.
Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX
Shutdown and reboot both send a kill -15 to processes. TSM listens to this kill signal and shuts itself down. If you have tape activity going, it is best to stop as much of it as you can, since some threads won't shut down completely until I/O is completed. bob On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 10:01:06AM -0400, David E Ehresman wrote: What is the preferred method of shutting down the TSM server on a AIX box when AIX is being rebooted? Is a kill command ok or is there a kinder way to shutdown TSM without using dsmadmc? David
Re: AIX Backups on TSM
If it's truly a filesystem you'll want to use exclude.fs (e.g. /usr /tmp /home etc) If it's not a filesystem (it's a directory) you'll want to use VIRTUALMOUNTPOINT and then exclude.fs The above methods will make it so the scheduler doesn't even scan the directories and their subdir's. This may or may not make your backups run faster if there are a lot of files in those directories. Since it's db2 I suspect there aren't and in this case it probably won't have a huge impact on speed. Using normal excludes what you're probably after is: exclude /db2/PRD/sapdata/.../* exclude /db2/PRD/sapdata/* The scheduler will still scan the directories and files since you're not using an exclude.fs and it will still backup the directory structure however it will NOT back up any files in the directory structure and that's what most people are usually after. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -Original Message- From: Crawford, Lindy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX Backups on TSM HI TSMers I have put an exlcude statement in my dsm.sys file on AIX 4.3.3, TSM 4.2.1. It is suppose to exclude filesystems, but it is still backing it upPlease check below and verify the dsm.sys option for me:- SErvername boetsm1n COMMmethod TCPip TCPPort1500 TCPServeraddress 163.199.130.6 PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE tcpwin 64 tcpbuf 32 txnbytel 2097152 errorlogret 14 schedlogret 14 exclude /db2/PRD/sapdata* As you can see above I want to exclude all the sapdata filesystems...I've even tried listing them individually but for some reason it is still backing it up. HELP Lindy Crawford Business Solutions: IT BoE Corporate * +27-31-3642185 +27-31-3642946 [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: Any unauthorised use or interception of this email is illegal. If this email is not intended for you, you may not copy, distribute nor disclose the contents to anyone. Save for bona fide company matters, the BoE Group does not accept any responsibility for the opinions expressed in this email. For further details please see: http://www.nbs.co.za/emaildisclaim.htm
Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX
Kill command is ok however keep in mind that you'll want to check what the TSM server is doing first before you do it. Make sure any backups/restores can be cancelled (and the appropriate people informed) as well as any other processes like migration and so forth. According to the TSM manual you should do: Disable sessions - prevents new clients from accessing TSM put permits existing sessions to continue Query sessions - check if any sessions are currently running Cancel session - cancel above sessions as appropriate Query process - check for any running processes Cancel process - cancel them as appropriate Then when the TSM server is quiet and you're ready to shut it down: Halt When you bring it back up use enable sessions to allow clients to access TSM again.. Are the above necessary? No not really.. doing a halt outright or sending a kill signal to the process is going to cause the TSM server to cancel everything anyways.. So if you know it's ok to do so then go for it. But I usually do a quick check and quiet the TSM server personally.. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shutting down TSM on AIX What is the preferred method of shutting down the TSM server on a AIX box when AIX is being rebooted? Is a kill command ok or is there a kinder way to shutdown TSM without using dsmadmc? David
Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX
Also check for mounted tapes Q MOUNT. TSM will not dismount the tapes before it halts. Then when you start back up you have drives with tapes in them that TSM doesn't know about. On AIX with out 3494 library, I've changed the rc.adsmserv startup script to dismount any volume from each drive using the MTLIB command before TSM starts. This way I can be sure there are not tapes left mounted from TSM comming down before. I'm not sure how you would do it with other SCSI libraries.. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Wichmann Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX Kill command is ok however keep in mind that you'll want to check what the TSM server is doing first before you do it. Make sure any backups/restores can be cancelled (and the appropriate people informed) as well as any other processes like migration and so forth. According to the TSM manual you should do: Disable sessions - prevents new clients from accessing TSM put permits existing sessions to continue Query sessions - check if any sessions are currently running Cancel session - cancel above sessions as appropriate Query process - check for any running processes Cancel process - cancel them as appropriate Then when the TSM server is quiet and you're ready to shut it down: Halt When you bring it back up use enable sessions to allow clients to access TSM again.. Are the above necessary? No not really.. doing a halt outright or sending a kill signal to the process is going to cause the TSM server to cancel everything anyways.. So if you know it's ok to do so then go for it. But I usually do a quick check and quiet the TSM server personally.. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shutting down TSM on AIX What is the preferred method of shutting down the TSM server on a AIX box when AIX is being rebooted? Is a kill command ok or is there a kinder way to shutdown TSM without using dsmadmc? David
Re: dsmc sched as another user
Ya good point and I thought of that. Fortunately it's not a big issue here. The later suggestion about creating a program and setting SUID doesn't work. At least not a ksh script..That was the first thing I tried. So far only sudo works.. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -Original Message- From: Thomas Denier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dsmc sched as another user Try using sudo. You can allow your non-root user execute only the dsmc command as root. I think this would allow the non-root user to execute dsmc as root with any operands, not just the 'sched' operand. This would be a serious security exposure. The non-root user could replace any file on the system with a copy of a different file or with an older version of the same file. If the non-root user had root permission on any other Unix client system the user could back up an arbitrary file there and restore it on the system where he or she was a non-root user. As far as I know, the only really safe way to do this is to write a program specifically to start the scheduler and make that program root owned, SUID, and executable by the user who needs to start the scheduler. Many Unix systems even today have a bug that makes SUID scripts dangerous. Unless you are certain that this bug is fixed on your system you will need to write the program in C or some other compiled language.
Archive failures due to disk storage pool filling up...
Environment: TSM OS/390 server - V4.1.4 Linux Client - V4.1.4 Been trying to archive a client node. The archive disk pool is not as large as the amount of data to be archived. Received a failure on the archive. This is one of the messages: 05/16/2002 10:43:20 ANS1228E Sending of object '/usr/local/blackboard/docs/courses/1/INFO-360-002-2002Spring/content/_65742_1/360web_ontime2.zip' failed I looked into the server log and found the related message: 05/16/2002 10:43:01 ANR0534W Transaction failed for session 62 for node ATHENA.VCU.EDU (Linux86) - size estimate exceeded and server is unable to obtain additional space in storage pool SPARCHIVE. Yes, I looked up the ANR0534W message. It talks about both a possible COMPRESSION issue as well as insufficient space in the storage pool. Yep, the compression for this session was -5%. So..Big deal.I would not think this would/should cause a permanent failure and lack of archiving of the file in question. Yes, I realize the storagepool filled up. My understand has always been, and please correct me if I am wrong, that is a storagepool fills up/reaches the HI value, 2 things occur: 1. Migration is kicked off, moving data to the defined NEXTPOOL (which is did) 2. The CLIENT is told to Whoa..Stop Sending Data..Hang on while I move stuff out of the storagepool to make more roomOK Client, you can send me more data, now.. Am I way off on this or is this some sort of problem ? Also, the book says : System Action: The specified session is ended and server operation continues. Does this mean the archive was killed and did not finish successfully ? Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX
So does anyone have a shutdown script that does all that they'd be willing to share? David [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/02 01:04PM Kill command is ok however keep in mind that you'll want to check what the TSM server is doing first before you do it. Make sure any backups/restores can be cancelled (and the appropriate people informed) as well as any other processes like migration and so forth. According to the TSM manual you should do: Disable sessions - prevents new clients from accessing TSM put permits existing sessions to continue Query sessions - check if any sessions are currently running Cancel session - cancel above sessions as appropriate Query process - check for any running processes Cancel process - cancel them as appropriate Then when the TSM server is quiet and you're ready to shut it down: Halt When you bring it back up use enable sessions to allow clients to access TSM again.. Are the above necessary? No not really.. doing a halt outright or sending a kill signal to the process is going to cause the TSM server to cancel everything anyways.. So if you know it's ok to do so then go for it. But I usually do a quick check and quiet the TSM server personally.. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shutting down TSM on AIX What is the preferred method of shutting down the TSM server on a AIX box when AIX is being rebooted? Is a kill command ok or is there a kinder way to shutdown TSM without using dsmadmc? David
Re: Best value for disk pool
The answer is, of course, It depends. For my big TSM server (AIX/RS6000), I use any type of disk I can get my hands on for the disk pool! We started with SSA, added space gradually by adding large SCSI drives in every available internal slot. Also have a SCSI connection to some older STK (actually Clariion) disk in an external drawer. No complaints. First thing I do each night is backup the disk pool to offsite tape. So the data is copied whether it migrates out to primary tape, or not. So the exposure to data loss is minimal, even if we had a crash of a disk pool volume before all the data migrated out. If you are doing nightly backups to diskpool, consider that most of the data is going to come into the disk pool, then just sit there doing nothing, until time to migrate out to tape. So speed for disk pool is not that important for many sites. Keep your DB and logs on the SSA, put the backup diskpool on the next slowest, put the archive diskpool (if you have one) on the next slowest, etc. It's the DB and log that are crucial. -Original Message- From: Steve Schaub [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Best value for disk pool We have a 3466 C00 (AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.1.0) using approx. 144gb of SSA disk for our db, logs, and several disk pools. We have reached a point of needing to add more disk for the db and pools, but because of budget cuts, the $$ for additional SSA disks is not looking good. It is time for us to consider using other types of direct attached disk for this system. Currently, we are not raid-ing the disk pool at all, and using tsm mirroring for the db. Can I get some feedback from those with experience using other vendor's disk systems on an AIX box. Cost, reliability, speed are of course the important metrics. I do understand that hooking up non-SSA disk probably means decoupling the 3466 and turning it into a standalone rs6k box. Anyone with tips on that path would also be appreciated. Steve Schaub Systems Engineer Haworth, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
Re: Virtualnodename issue concerning Windows and AIX
I had this type of thing happen to a Mac client. A win* 4.2.1.26 client touched a mac node, it didn't even back anything up, just connected, but it caused the mac client to say it was downlevel. So I got the 5.1 mac client and installed it and it still said it was downlevel! At this point I called a problem into Tivoli; the level 1 rep can give out a procedure of show commands and other unsupported things to fix the node record of the mac node to 'undownlevel' it. It has to do with unicode (no surprize there). I think the rep said it was a bug, I don't know what the resolution will be or when. So call Tivoli support and you can undownlevel your aix node. Hope this helps, Bill At 03:43 PM 5/16/2002 +0200, you wrote: Eric, You are right about those statements. But the thing that scares me, is that it is at all possible to connect as an AIX node to TSM, using windows TSM client software, regardles of the version. You can train users to any extend, but you cannot always predict the actions they will take. What i would like to see, is that the TSM server prevents the update in the database for a specific node when the client platforms don't match, or when there is only read actions involved. Like queries or restores. Ilja G. Coolen _ ABP / USZO CIS / BS / TB / Storage Management Telefoon : +31(0)45 579 7938 Fax : +31(0)45 579 3990 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Intranet : Storage Web http://intranet/cis_bstb/html_content/sm/index_sm.htm _ - Everybody has a photographic memory, some just don't have film. - -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Verzonden: donderdag 16 mei 2002 13:31 Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: Virtualnodename issue concerning Windows and AIX Hi Ilja! I don't think it's a filespace renaming problem. I think you are running into the fact that once you connect with a newer client version, you can't go back to an old version. This is stated in the readme: - Data that has been backed up or archived from a TSM V4.2 client using the encryption feature, or from any TSM V4.2 Windows client, cannot be restored or retrieved to any previous level client, regardless of the TSM server level. The data must be restored or retrieved by a V4.2.0 or higher level client. Personally I don't see this as a bug. One just should not connect to TSM pretending to be another user as long as you are using different client levels or OS. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Ilja G. Coolen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 17:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virtualnodename issue concerning Windows and AIX Hello there, We stumbled onto the following problem, the hard way i may add. We have a mixed environment using AIX, Windows NT/2K and Sun Solaris. The Sun and NT boxes all run a very recent TSM client level. Some AIX boxes are running TSM client code by now as well, but most of the aren't on AIX 4.3.3 yet, so we can't upgrade them all. Our TSM server runs on AIX 4.3.3.x at level 4.2.1.9. Here comes the problem. One of our DBA's connected to TSM server using a windows tsm client, pretending to be a certain AIX node. Due to the optionsettings, the AUTOFSRENAME action kicked in, updating the FS information on that AIX box. The q node showed the following. tsm: ABPTSM1q node rs6sv090* Node Name Platform Policy Domain Days Since Days Since Locked? Name Last Acce- Password ss Set - -- -- -- --- RS6SV090 AIX DOMRS_TST 1 1 No RS6SV090Z WinNTDOMRS_TST 1 182 No The *Z node is the renamed version, so we could continue the backups to the original node name, being rs6sv090. As you can see, the *Z AIX box is shown as a NT box. Huh?! When connecting the original node from the AIX command line, we are told that the client is down-level, so we cannot connect. No backups or restores are possible using the original node. No backups or restores are possible from any AIX node, no mather which client code we run. To make the original data available, we exported the *Z data, and imported it into the original nodename, without updating the client information using the replacedefs=no option during the import. This took a while though. I think it's not such a good functionality, that we can use a windows tsm client to connect as an AIX box, rendering the AIX data unavailable. To me, this feels like a BUG. I'm working on the following questions: Did any of you run into such a problem too? Does anyone know of a way to prevent someone from performing the connect like this? Is this
Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX
For scsi I do the following before starting TSM: tapeutil -f /dev/rmtxx reset tapeutil -f /dev/rmtxx unmount /dev/null 21 This resets any scsi locks and unmounts any tapes. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX Also check for mounted tapes Q MOUNT. TSM will not dismount the tapes before it halts. Then when you start back up you have drives with tapes in them that TSM doesn't know about. On AIX with out 3494 library, I've changed the rc.adsmserv startup script to dismount any volume from each drive using the MTLIB command before TSM starts. This way I can be sure there are not tapes left mounted from TSM comming down before. I'm not sure how you would do it with other SCSI libraries.. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Wichmann Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX Kill command is ok however keep in mind that you'll want to check what the TSM server is doing first before you do it. Make sure any backups/restores can be cancelled (and the appropriate people informed) as well as any other processes like migration and so forth. According to the TSM manual you should do: Disable sessions - prevents new clients from accessing TSM put permits existing sessions to continue Query sessions - check if any sessions are currently running Cancel session - cancel above sessions as appropriate Query process - check for any running processes Cancel process - cancel them as appropriate Then when the TSM server is quiet and you're ready to shut it down: Halt When you bring it back up use enable sessions to allow clients to access TSM again.. Are the above necessary? No not really.. doing a halt outright or sending a kill signal to the process is going to cause the TSM server to cancel everything anyways.. So if you know it's ok to do so then go for it. But I usually do a quick check and quiet the TSM server personally.. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shutting down TSM on AIX What is the preferred method of shutting down the TSM server on a AIX box when AIX is being rebooted? Is a kill command ok or is there a kinder way to shutdown TSM without using dsmadmc? David *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
forgot to say
Hi again Forgot to say TSM server is version 4.1.5.0 running on AIX 4.3.3 Tried extend sizes of 10, 40, 80 and 100 and everytime get lvmAddVol error Please don't tell me its database restore time. :-( Chris _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
Re: Archive failures due to disk storage pool filling up...
Your step number 2 is not exactly true, it won't wait for migration to empty space. If you are setup for client to go directly to tape, it will do that IF tape mounts etc are available. And your last question is correct - it is terminated. Simplest solution is to increase diskpool or if that's not an option, adjust schedules to update migration percentages so pool will be emptier when this clients schedule comes around. (I've done a good bit of this tuning.) David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/02 01:20PM Environment: TSM OS/390 server - V4.1.4 Linux Client - V4.1.4 Been trying to archive a client node. The archive disk pool is not as large as the amount of data to be archived. Received a failure on the archive. This is one of the messages: 05/16/2002 10:43:20 ANS1228E Sending of object '/usr/local/blackboard/docs/courses/1/INFO-360-002-2002Spring/content/_65742_1/360web_ontime2.zip' failed I looked into the server log and found the related message: 05/16/2002 10:43:01 ANR0534W Transaction failed for session 62 for node ATHENA.VCU.EDU (Linux86) - size estimate exceeded and server is unable to obtain additional space in storage pool SPARCHIVE. Yes, I looked up the ANR0534W message. It talks about both a possible COMPRESSION issue as well as insufficient space in the storage pool. Yep, the compression for this session was -5%. So..Big deal.I would not think this would/should cause a permanent failure and lack of archiving of the file in question. Yes, I realize the storagepool filled up. My understand has always been, and please correct me if I am wrong, that is a storagepool fills up/reaches the HI value, 2 things occur: 1. Migration is kicked off, moving data to the defined NEXTPOOL (which is did) 2. The CLIENT is told to Whoa..Stop Sending Data..Hang on while I move stuff out of the storagepool to make more roomOK Client, you can send me more data, now.. Am I way off on this or is this some sort of problem ? Also, the book says : System Action: The specified session is ended and server operation continues. Does this mean the archive was killed and did not finish successfully ? Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807 MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 05/16/02 14:22:26 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
TDP for SQL and Stripes
I am starting to play with the stripe function of the TDP for SQL. I got to wondering... If you have a database backed up directly to tape using 4 stripes... you need 4 tape drives to do that.. and, 4 tape drives to do a restore. I got that much... But.. What happens if, by reclamation process, two or more of the striped portions of the backup get reclaimed onto the same tape? Will TSM allow that to happen? if so, how do you do a restore? Any other gotchya's out there?
tsm down...please help
Hi, Second time lucky, message didn't seem to reach the forum first time... basically tsm log has filled up and server has crashed. Our log size was 5196 Mb I've dsmfmt another log volume 1024 Mb in size and then done dsmserv extend log volumename and tried sizes ranging from 1024 to 10 keep getting the lvmaddvol error message. Should I have dsmfmt a smaller volume , say 100Mb then tried to add that?? Hope you can help, the thought of restore scares me ... Regards Chris _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
Urgent: server down , lvmAddVol error on restart
Hi ALL In a bit of a pickle. TSM server has crashed as the log filled up. The log size is 5196M. I have dsmfmt another log file of 1024Mb and tried to do dsmserv extend log /volumename 100 but get the dreaded lvmAddVol error. I thought the limit was 5.5Gb hence would have expected to be able to extend this. any ideas TIA Chris _ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Archive failures due to disk storage pool filling up...
Thanks for the reply. No, the disk pool isn't cached (just double checked). It is 7GB large and the user is trying to archive 19GB. I will pass on the info about the compression options. For now, I forced OFF from the server. Cook, Dwight E [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/2002 01:48 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Archive failures due to disk storage pool filling up... you obviously have cached diskpool(s) run with compression yes (in dsm.sys) and compressalways no (in dsm.opt) if a file grows withh compression, compressalways tells it to send it uncompressed... Dwight E. Cook Software Application Engineer III Science Applications International Corporation 509 S. Boston Ave. Suit 220 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103-4606 Office (918) 732-7109 -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Archive failures due to disk storage pool filling up... Environment: TSM OS/390 server - V4.1.4 Linux Client - V4.1.4 Been trying to archive a client node. The archive disk pool is not as large as the amount of data to be archived. Received a failure on the archive. This is one of the messages: 05/16/2002 10:43:20 ANS1228E Sending of object '/usr/local/blackboard/docs/courses/1/INFO-360-002-2002Spring/content/_65742 _1/360web_ontime2.zip' failed I looked into the server log and found the related message: 05/16/2002 10:43:01 ANR0534W Transaction failed for session 62 for node ATHENA.VCU.EDU (Linux86) - size estimate exceeded and server is unable to obtain additional space in storage pool SPARCHIVE. Yes, I looked up the ANR0534W message. It talks about both a possible COMPRESSION issue as well as insufficient space in the storage pool. Yep, the compression for this session was -5%. So..Big deal.I would not think this would/should cause a permanent failure and lack of archiving of the file in question. Yes, I realize the storagepool filled up. My understand has always been, and please correct me if I am wrong, that is a storagepool fills up/reaches the HI value, 2 things occur: 1. Migration is kicked off, moving data to the defined NEXTPOOL (which is did) 2. The CLIENT is told to Whoa..Stop Sending Data..Hang on while I move stuff out of the storagepool to make more roomOK Client, you can send me more data, now.. Am I way off on this or is this some sort of problem ? Also, the book says : System Action: The specified session is ended and server operation continues. Does this mean the archive was killed and did not finish successfully ? Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807
Re: Urgent: server down , lvmAddVol error on restart
Delete you 1024 MB vol and dsmfmt another of about 400 MB and try again. The linmit is somewhere around 5.5GB, don't remember exact number. This should get you out of jam. Try 200MB if 400 fails. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/02 01:56PM Hi ALL In a bit of a pickle. TSM server has crashed as the log filled up. The log size is 5196M. I have dsmfmt another log file of 1024Mb and tried to do dsmserv extend log /volumename 100 but get the dreaded lvmAddVol error. I thought the limit was 5.5Gb hence would have expected to be able to extend this. any ideas TIA Chris _ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 05/16/02 14:17:25 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: tsm down...please help
It would seem logical to dsmfmt a small volume and add it just to get the server up. the 1024MB volume will definitely push you over the limit. Could this be what TSM server is seeing? Good Luck John Talafous -Original Message- From: chris rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tsm down...please help Hi, Second time lucky, message didn't seem to reach the forum first time... basically tsm log has filled up and server has crashed. Our log size was 5196 Mb I've dsmfmt another log volume 1024 Mb in size and then done dsmserv extend log volumename and tried sizes ranging from 1024 to 10 keep getting the lvmaddvol error message. Should I have dsmfmt a smaller volume , say 100Mb then tried to add that?? Hope you can help, the thought of restore scares me ... Regards Chris _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
Can I insall a TSM client on a machine with OS Unicos ??
Hi, it's an urgent question, thank you very much for giving me an answer. I would like to know if I can Install a TSM client on a machine with OS Unicos. I know that TSM could be installed on several machines, but CRAY (OS Unicos) I don't know. Thank you __ Boîte aux lettres - Caramail - http://www.caramail.com
Re: Urgent: server down , lvmAddVol error on restart
This may help you a bit!!! Problem Desc: What are the maximum Database log LOG Logical Volume Sizes? Solution: The maximum Database log Logical Volume Sizes(*) are as follows: Recovery Log: 5,704,253,440 bytes, 5,440 MB or 5.3125 GB Data Base: 570,425,344,000 bytes, 544,000 MB or 531.25 GB. Symptoms of exceeding: ANRD adsmstart.c(2379): error=35 from LVMADDVOL Refr: /lvm/lvm.h #define LVMRC_MAX_LV_SIZE 35 /* Max Logical Vol size reached.*/ (*) These values are not affected by mirroring as mirrors do not affect the logical volume size or the size of the LPT, Logical Partition Table. It is the amount space reserved for storing the LPT in the check point area that limits the logical volume size. Another method to determine the maximum logical volume size is to use the undocumented SHow LVMFA command. This is the preferred method as it is possible that the maximum logical volume size may be changed in some future version. The primary areas of interest are the output titled DB Logical Partition Table area and LOG 1 Logical Partition area. The LOG 2... section may be ignored as this area is for a design that was never implemented. adsm show lvmfa LVM fixed storage area capacities: Disk Table area: 14 pages allocated; 33 entries/page; 470 total entries. Using an average disk name length of 37 characters. Copy Table area: 6 pages allocated; 145 entries/page; 870 total entries. DB Logical Partition Table area: 200 pages allocated; 679 entries/page; 135995 total entries; Maximum possible DB LP Table size: 531.2 Gb. LOG 1 Logical Partition Table area: 2 pages allocated; 677 entries/page; 1355 total entries; Maximum possible LOG 1 LP Table size: 5.3 Gb. LOG 2 Logical Partition Table area: 2 pages allocated; 677 entries/page; 1355 total entries; Maximum possible LOG 2 LP Table size: 5.3 Gb Regards, Demetrius Malbrough UNIX/TSM Administrator -Original Message- From: chris rees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Urgent: server down , lvmAddVol error on restart Hi ALL In a bit of a pickle. TSM server has crashed as the log filled up. The log size is 5196M. I have dsmfmt another log file of 1024Mb and tried to do dsmserv extend log /volumename 100 but get the dreaded lvmAddVol error. I thought the limit was 5.5Gb hence would have expected to be able to extend this. any ideas TIA Chris _ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: forgot to say
Is this an AIX error you are getting? You may have a disk problem or need to adjust some parameters for this Logical Volume. Need more info on error. BTW: with TSM 4.2, Log size is increased to about 13GB. David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/02 02:05PM Hi again Forgot to say TSM server is version 4.1.5.0 running on AIX 4.3.3 Tried extend sizes of 10, 40, 80 and 100 and everytime get lvmAddVol error Please don't tell me its database restore time. :-( Chris _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 05/16/02 14:57:29 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: TDP for SQL and Stripes
What happens if, by reclamation process, two or more of the striped portions of the backup get reclaimed onto the same tape? Will TSM allow that to happen? if so, how do you do a restore? Any other gotchya's out there? Todd, In a nutshell.. turn on collocation by filespace to avoid this. We talk about this in Chapter 1 of the User's Guide under Additional Strategy Considerations. * If you use data striping, also use Tivoli Storage Manager server filespace collocation to try to keep each stripe on a different storage volume. Use the Tivoli Storage Manager command UPDATE STGPOOL to set this parameter. It is recommended that meta data (counted as a separate filespace) not be allowed to go to tape media. * The maximum number of data stripes you can use must be smaller than the maximum supported by the SQL server and less than the value of the Tivoli Storage Manager server TXNGROUPMAX option in the dsmserv.opt file. SQL Server 7.0 allows a maximum of 32 data stripes, and SQL Server 2000 allows a maximum of 64. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Leave everything a little better than you found it. - Smile a lot: it costs nothing and is beyond price.
Re: Archive failures due to disk storage pool filling up...
Thanks for the confirmation on the termination of the archive...drat..I was hoping it wasn't so. The pool was empty when we started. Simply not enough room. I will have to expand and/or have the user do the archive in pieces.. We don't do a lot of archiving. This is why the pool is so small. Don't have the DASD to just sit there and not be used but once in a while... David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/2002 02:07 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Archive failures due to disk storage pool filling up... Your step number 2 is not exactly true, it won't wait for migration to empty space. If you are setup for client to go directly to tape, it will do that IF tape mounts etc are available. And your last question is correct - it is terminated. Simplest solution is to increase diskpool or if that's not an option, adjust schedules to update migration percentages so pool will be emptier when this clients schedule comes around. (I've done a good bit of this tuning.) David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/02 01:20PM Environment: TSM OS/390 server - V4.1.4 Linux Client - V4.1.4 Been trying to archive a client node. The archive disk pool is not as large as the amount of data to be archived. Received a failure on the archive. This is one of the messages: 05/16/2002 10:43:20 ANS1228E Sending of object '/usr/local/blackboard/docs/courses/1/INFO-360-002-2002Spring/content/_65742_1/360web_ontime2.zip' failed I looked into the server log and found the related message: 05/16/2002 10:43:01 ANR0534W Transaction failed for session 62 for node ATHENA.VCU.EDU (Linux86) - size estimate exceeded and server is unable to obtain additional space in storage pool SPARCHIVE. Yes, I looked up the ANR0534W message. It talks about both a possible COMPRESSION issue as well as insufficient space in the storage pool. Yep, the compression for this session was -5%. So..Big deal.I would not think this would/should cause a permanent failure and lack of archiving of the file in question. Yes, I realize the storagepool filled up. My understand has always been, and please correct me if I am wrong, that is a storagepool fills up/reaches the HI value, 2 things occur: 1. Migration is kicked off, moving data to the defined NEXTPOOL (which is did) 2. The CLIENT is told to Whoa..Stop Sending Data..Hang on while I move stuff out of the storagepool to make more roomOK Client, you can send me more data, now.. Am I way off on this or is this some sort of problem ? Also, the book says : System Action: The specified session is ended and server operation continues. Does this mean the archive was killed and did not finish successfully ? Zoltan Forray Virginia Commonwealth University - University Computing Center e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - voice: 804-828-4807 MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 05/16/02 14:22:26 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Mount request denied
Error Messages (TSM on AIX Server) 05/15/02 06:41:44 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400142 - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:41:44 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400219 - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:52:52 ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:52:52 ANR0525W Transaction failed for session 4459 for node NT_COMP_S131 (WinNT) - storage media inaccessible. I have done thefollowing tasks. · checked the volumes which got error message in the log are in the library with readw status for private. · NO changes to devclass or in TSM. · There are enough scratch volumes are available in the library. · We had a problem with the griper last week and IBM Support Fixed that and we start getting such problem after that but Hardware support person has not upgrade or de-grade any micro -code on 3494 system or 3590 drives. · At this point Library and drives are working fine · In a later session I tried to move the data and it worked fine. · After the failed messages, Most of the time process or schedules get completed successfully. · This causes restore/retrieves/reclamation/migration to fail, rather than queue, until a drive becomes available (nothing mounted. Some time the failed restarted process works fine. I also found in a later try that all drive were idel and migration failed with the following error message 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library ATL3494. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400491 - mount failed. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR0985I Process 1478 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 12:37:36. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR1081W Space reclamation terminated for volume 400585 storage media inaccessible. tsm: AIX_ADSM_SERVERq mo ANR8329I 3590 volume 400068 is mounted R/W in drive 3590E_RMT5 (/dev/rmt5), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400159 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT6 (/dev/rmt6), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400796 is mounted R/W in drive 3590E_RMT3 (/dev/rmt3), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400034 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT0 (/dev/rmt0), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400095 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT4 (/dev/rmt4), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400600 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT2 (/dev/rmt2), status: IDLE. ANR8334I 6 volumes found. Any idea why this is happening.
TSM 422 client gone from ftp server?
Does anyone know why or where the TSM 4.2.2 clients for some platforms are now missing from the IBM ftp server? 422 and LATEST are no longer out there for AIX, Solaris .. Among others.. Whats up? thanks, bob
Re: Mount request denied
What version and what OS? We have seen this sporadically with 4.1.4.5 on AIX 4.3.3. Some days the only way to get out of it is to recycle the machine. At 02:50 PM 5/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: Error Messages (TSM on AIX Server) 05/15/02 06:41:44 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400142 - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:41:44 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400219 - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:52:52 ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:52:52 ANR0525W Transaction failed for session 4459 for node NT_COMP_S131 (WinNT) - storage media inaccessible. I have done thefollowing tasks. · checked the volumes which got error message in the log are in the library with readw status for private. · NO changes to devclass or in TSM. · There are enough scratch volumes are available in the library. · We had a problem with the griper last week and IBM Support Fixed that and we start getting such problem after that but Hardware support person has not upgrade or de-grade any micro -code on 3494 system or 3590 drives. · At this point Library and drives are working fine · In a later session I tried to move the data and it worked fine. · After the failed messages, Most of the time process or schedules get completed successfully. · This causes restore/retrieves/reclamation/migration to fail, rather than queue, until a drive becomes available (nothing mounted. Some time the failed restarted process works fine. I also found in a later try that all drive were idel and migration failed with the following error message 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library ATL3494. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400491 - mount failed. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR0985I Process 1478 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 12:37:36. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR1081W Space reclamation terminated for volume 400585 storage media inaccessible. tsm: AIX_ADSM_SERVERq mo ANR8329I 3590 volume 400068 is mounted R/W in drive 3590E_RMT5 (/dev/rmt5), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400159 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT6 (/dev/rmt6), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400796 is mounted R/W in drive 3590E_RMT3 (/dev/rmt3), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400034 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT0 (/dev/rmt0), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400095 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT4 (/dev/rmt4), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400600 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT2 (/dev/rmt2), status: IDLE. ANR8334I 6 volumes found. Any idea why this is happening.
Re: Mount request denied
Fred Thanks , Here are the OS and TSM information- OS Aix 4.3.3.0 Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0 - - Original Message - From: Fred Johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:53 PM Subject: Re: Mount request denied What version and what OS? We have seen this sporadically with 4.1.4.5 on AIX 4.3.3. Some days the only way to get out of it is to recycle the machine. At 02:50 PM 5/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: Error Messages (TSM on AIX Server) 05/15/02 06:41:44 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400142 - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:41:44 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400219 - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:52:52 ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:52:52 ANR0525W Transaction failed for session 4459 for node NT_COMP_S131 (WinNT) - storage media inaccessible. I have done thefollowing tasks. 7 checked the volumes which got error message in the log are in the library with readw status for private. 7 NO changes to devclass or in TSM. 7 There are enough scratch volumes are available in the library. 7 We had a problem with the griper last week and IBM Support Fixed that and we start getting such problem after that but Hardware support person has not upgrade or de-grade any micro -code on 3494 system or 3590 drives. 7 At this point Library and drives are working fine 7 In a later session I tried to move the data and it worked fine. 7 After the failed messages, Most of the time process or schedules get completed successfully. 7 This causes restore/retrieves/reclamation/migration to fail, rather than queue, until a drive becomes available (nothing mounted. Some time the failed restarted process works fine. I also found in a later try that all drive were idel and migration failed with the following error message 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library ATL3494. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400491 - mount failed. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR0985I Process 1478 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 12:37:36. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR1081W Space reclamation terminated for volume 400585 storage media inaccessible. tsm: AIX_ADSM_SERVERq mo ANR8329I 3590 volume 400068 is mounted R/W in drive 3590E_RMT5 (/dev/rmt5), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400159 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT6 (/dev/rmt6), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400796 is mounted R/W in drive 3590E_RMT3 (/dev/rmt3), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400034 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT0 (/dev/rmt0), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400095 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT4 (/dev/rmt4), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400600 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT2 (/dev/rmt2), status: IDLE. ANR8334I 6 volumes found. Any idea why this is happening.
Re: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server?
I went out there earlier today myself and found what you found too. I'm curious too. Dave Pearson -Original Message- From: Bob Booth - UIUC [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server? Does anyone know why or where the TSM 4.2.2 clients for some platforms are now missing from the IBM ftp server? 422 and LATEST are no longer out there for AIX, Solaris .. Among others.. Whats up? thanks, bob
Re: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server?
Perhaps because there seems to be some problems with some of the 4.2.2. stuff? David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/02 03:59PM I went out there earlier today myself and found what you found too. I'm curious too. Dave Pearson -Original Message- From: Bob Booth - UIUC [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server? Does anyone know why or where the TSM 4.2.2 clients for some platforms are now missing from the IBM ftp server? 422 and LATEST are no longer out there for AIX, Solaris .. Among others.. Whats up? thanks, bob MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 05/16/02 16:39:37 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Is there a 5.1 client for Solaris?
On the ftp site: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/ the v5r1 server and storage agent for Solaris are there, however there is no client code. Is this planned? -Bern Sr. Systems Engineer Cadence Design Systems - Storage
Backing up Active Directory on Win2000
Hi all, I'm not familiar with Active Directory on Win2000 but I've been told by one of our Win2000 guys : There is a System Object selection list that includes the following items to backup using TSM: Active Directory, COM+ DB, Event Log, Registry, RSM, System Files, System Volume But it appears like only the following System Objects are currently being selected for backup: Event Log Registry RSM I'm wondering if by default, incremental backup does not back up all of the System Objects? Do I need to specify something in the DSM.OPT file or in a client optionset to get it to do all the system objects in Active Directory? Thanks, Julie Phinney
How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool
In a Win2000/TSM 4.2.1.5 environment with a 3584-LTO library: I have a situation where all available (4) tape drives are writing to four LTO tapes incremental copypool information. This results in four tapes being sent off-site with only 1-3% usage and a lot of unnecessary tape handling. Is there a way to limit the copypool writes to one or two drives without affecting the rest of the environment? Thanks in advance, LohnieM __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Re: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server?
Has someone reported this? I have not heard anything about UNIX clients at 4.2.2 having problems.. The Windows client still has the 422 directory and LATEST link. IBM/Tivoli? bob On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 04:24:14PM -0400, David Longo wrote: Perhaps because there seems to be some problems with some of the 4.2.2. stuff? David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/02 03:59PM I went out there earlier today myself and found what you found too. I'm curious too. Dave Pearson -Original Message- From: Bob Booth - UIUC [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server? Does anyone know why or where the TSM 4.2.2 clients for some platforms are now missing from the IBM ftp server? 422 and LATEST are no longer out there for AIX, Solaris .. Among others.. Whats up? thanks, bob MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 05/16/02 16:39:37 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
Re: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool
You need to change the maxpr variable in the backup storagepool command. For example ba stg primary pool name copypool name maxpr=1 This will limit the copy operation to using one drive. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lohnie Martineau Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool In a Win2000/TSM 4.2.1.5 environment with a 3584-LTO library: I have a situation where all available (4) tape drives are writing to four LTO tapes incremental copypool information. This results in four tapes being sent off-site with only 1-3% usage and a lot of unnecessary tape handling. Is there a way to limit the copypool writes to one or two drives without affecting the rest of the environment? Thanks in advance, LohnieM __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Sloooow Novell Backups
TSM server 4.2.1.9 on Solaris 8 TSM 5.1 client on Novell 5.1 Backing up a volume with 500,000 files approx 1k each. The files are being transfered to the tsm server approx 1/sec. This is just a little too sloow. When using ftp to transfer these same files, either by getting/putting the transfers fly. This is leading me to believe that the issue is with the TSM server/client settings. Does anybody have any ideas on any settings in the dsm.opt that could be changed to enhance performance? Also I want to bind all objects in two of the volumes to a specific mgt class. All that is being bound to it is the dirs. Long day. What am I doing wrong??? Here is the dsm.opt *** COMMMETHODTCPip TCPSERVERADDRESS catamount TCPPORT 1500 tcpclientaddressxxx.yy.z.zzz NODENAME novell_test INCLUDE sys:* tape9940 INCLUDE extravol1:* tape9940 EXCLUDE sys:\system\secaudit.log EXCLUDE sys:\system\events.log EXCLUDE sys:\system\system.log EXCLUDE sys:\system\btrieve.trn EXCLUDE SYS:\system\tsa\err$hst.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\tsa\err$log.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\tsa\skip$log.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\tsa\tsa$temp.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\sys$log.err EXCLUDE sys:\_swap_.mem EXCLUDE sys:\vol$log.err EXCLUDE sys:\tts$log.err NWPWFILE YES passwordaccess generate managedservices schedule webclient Thanks. Stephen Firmes TSM Engineer Tivoli Certified TSM Consultant StorageNetworks, Inc Work: 781-622-6287 http://www.storagenetworks.com
Re: Can I insall a TSM client on a machine with OS Unicos ??
If the operating system is not listed at the following URL, the operating system is not supported. http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-enterprise/platforms.html Sias --- rachida elouaraini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, it's an urgent question, thank you very much for giving me an answer. I would like to know if I can Install a TSM client on a machine with OS Unicos. I know that TSM could be installed on several machines, but CRAY (OS Unicos) I don't know. Thank you __ Bonte aux lettres - Caramail - http://www.caramail.com __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Re: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool
I'll try that, but I understood that the MAXPRocess parameter is 1 by default. I belive I can change the device class mount limit from drives to a number, but that would affect all sequential storagepools associated with it. ? --- Chris Gibes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to change the maxpr variable in the backup storagepool command. For example ba stg primary pool name copypool name maxpr=1 This will limit the copy operation to using one drive. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lohnie Martineau Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool In a Win2000/TSM 4.2.1.5 environment with a 3584-LTO library: I have a situation where all available (4) tape drives are writing to four LTO tapes incremental copypool information. This results in four tapes being sent off-site with only 1-3% usage and a lot of unnecessary tape handling. Is there a way to limit the copypool writes to one or two drives without affecting the rest of the environment? Thanks in advance, LohnieM __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Re: SCO UnixWare 5
I am in doubt - there is no UnixWare 5. If you are talking about SCO UNIX 5, i.e. Open Desktop or Open Server, the right client is ADSM v3.1. (ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/adsm/fixes/v3r1/sco/) If UnixWare is correct - there is v4.1 TSM client for UW 7.x (ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v4r1/UnixWare/LATEST/) Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:SCO UnixWare 5 Hey, I'm having a server running SCO UnixWare 5. Does anybody know if this server is supported by ADSM/TSM? and if so which version of then ADSM/TSM software I have to use? Thanks in advance Med venlig hilsen / Best regards Flemming Kold Madsen Systemkonsulent EuroTrust NetVaulting A/S P. Hiort Lorenzensvej 2 DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8210 2030 , Phone Direct: +45 8210 2032 , Fax: +45 8210 2020 Mailto: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , Website: http://www.netvaulting.com
Re: Can I insall a TSM client on a machine with OS Unicos ??
Since OS Unicos is not listed at the following URL http://www.tivoli.com/products/index/storage-mgr-enterprise/platforms.html The answer is no. Sias Dealy --- rachida elouaraini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, it's an urgent question, thank you very much for giving me an answer. I would like to know if I can Install a TSM client on a machine with OS Unicos. I know that TSM could be installed on several machines, but CRAY (OS Unicos) I don't know. Thank you __ Bonte aux lettres - Caramail - http://www.caramail.com __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Re: Sloooow Novell Backups
Top of message -- 05-16-02 15:27 S.SHEPPARD (SHS)Slw Novell Backups Try adding the following for starters: TCPBUFFSIZE32 TCPWINDOWSIZE 63 TXNBYTELIMIT 25600 For the INCLUDE statements, I think you want the following: INCLUDE sys:\...\* tape9940 INCLUDE extravol1:\...\* tape9940 Sam Sheppard San Diego Data Processing Corp. (858)-581-9668 ---` Top of message -- 05-16-02 15:06 ..NETMAIL (001) Slw Novell Backups Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 18:03:08 -0400 From: Firmes, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Slw Novell Backups To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _Top_of_Message_ TSM server 4.2.1.9 on Solaris 8 TSM 5.1 client on Novell 5.1 Backing up a volume with 500,000 files approx 1k each. The files are = being transfered to the tsm server approx 1/sec. This is just a little = too sloow. When using ftp to transfer these same files, either by = getting/putting the transfers fly. This is leading me to believe that = the issue is with the TSM server/client settings. Does anybody have any ideas on any settings in the dsm.opt that could be = changed to enhance performance? Also I want to bind all objects in two = of the volumes to a specific mgt class. All that is being bound to it = is the dirs. Long day. What am I doing wrong??? Here is the dsm.opt *** COMMMETHODTCPip TCPSERVERADDRESS catamount TCPPORT 1500 tcpclientaddressxxx.yy.z.zzz NODENAME novell_test INCLUDE sys:* tape9940 INCLUDE extravol1:* tape9940 EXCLUDE sys:\system\secaudit.log EXCLUDE sys:\system\events.log EXCLUDE sys:\system\system.log EXCLUDE sys:\system\btrieve.trn EXCLUDE SYS:\system\tsa\err$hst.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\tsa\err$log.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\tsa\skip$log.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\tsa\tsa$temp.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\sys$log.err EXCLUDE sys:\_swap_.mem EXCLUDE sys:\vol$log.err EXCLUDE sys:\tts$log.err NWPWFILE YES passwordaccess generate managedservices schedule webclient Thanks. Stephen Firmes=20 TSM Engineer Tivoli Certified TSM Consultant StorageNetworks, Inc Work: 781-622-6287 http://www.storagenetworks.com ---`
Re: Is there a 5.1 client for Solaris?
If you are looking for 5.1 client code for the Solaris you can get it at the following: ftp://service.software.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/client/v5r1/ Under the patches direcotry are just correction and the code are not fully tested. Sias --- Bern Ruelas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the ftp site: ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/ the v5r1 server and storage agent for Solaris are there, however there is no client code. Is this planned? -Bern Sr. Systems Engineer Cadence Design Systems - Storage __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Re: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool
Are you running COLLOCATION on the Offsite pool? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Lohnie Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool I'll try that, but I understood that the MAXPRocess parameter is 1 by default. I belive I can change the device class mount limit from drives to a number, but that would affect all sequential storagepools associated with it. ? --- Chris Gibes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to change the maxpr variable in the backup storagepool command. For example ba stg primary pool name copypool name maxpr=1 This will limit the copy operation to using one drive. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lohnie Martineau Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool In a Win2000/TSM 4.2.1.5 environment with a 3584-LTO library: I have a situation where all available (4) tape drives are writing to four LTO tapes incremental copypool information. This results in four tapes being sent off-site with only 1-3% usage and a lot of unnecessary tape handling. Is there a way to limit the copypool writes to one or two drives without affecting the rest of the environment? Thanks in advance, LohnieM __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Re: Sloooow Novell Backups
Nikolai Sonin System Architect ESI Group 28381 Encina Drive Suite 100 Winters CA, 95694-9007 530-795-0200 ext. 235 Firmes, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/2002 03:03 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Slw Novell Backups TSM server 4.2.1.9 on Solaris 8 TSM 5.1 client on Novell 5.1 Backing up a volume with 500,000 files approx 1k each. The files are being transfered to the tsm server approx 1/sec. This is just a little too sloow. When using ftp to transfer these same files, either by getting/putting the transfers fly. This is leading me to believe that the issue is with the TSM server/client settings. Does anybody have any ideas on any settings in the dsm.opt that could be changed to enhance performance? Also I want to bind all objects in two of the volumes to a specific mgt class. All that is being bound to it is the dirs. Long day. What am I doing wrong??? Here is the dsm.opt *** COMMMETHODTCPip TCPSERVERADDRESS catamount TCPPORT 1500 tcpclientaddressxxx.yy.z.zzz NODENAME novell_test INCLUDE sys:* tape9940 INCLUDE extravol1:* tape9940 This will work for the files. INCLUDE extravol1:\...\*.* tape9940 INCLUDE extravol1:\...\* tape9940 EXCLUDE sys:\system\secaudit.log EXCLUDE sys:\system\events.log EXCLUDE sys:\system\system.log EXCLUDE sys:\system\btrieve.trn EXCLUDE SYS:\system\tsa\err$hst.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\tsa\err$log.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\tsa\skip$log.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\tsa\tsa$temp.* EXCLUDE sys:\system\sys$log.err EXCLUDE sys:\_swap_.mem EXCLUDE sys:\vol$log.err EXCLUDE sys:\tts$log.err NWPWFILE YES passwordaccess generate managedservices schedule webclient Performance Parameters Try these first TXNBYTEL 25600 TCPWINDOW 63 USELARGECOM YES Process 15 Thanks. Stephen Firmes TSM Engineer Tivoli Certified TSM Consultant StorageNetworks, Inc Work: 781-622-6287 http://www.storagenetworks.com
Re: Tuning TSM
Look at the proceedings at www.share.org from the Nashville Meeting. A
couple TSM sessions given by Charlie Nichols from the TSM Performance Lab
has everything you need (5722 and 5723).
Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon, INC
757-688-8180
-Original Message-
From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 9:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tuning TSM
Great for AIX, but does anyone have IP tuning parameters for Windows2000?
Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of lt
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 6:42 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tuning TSM
Hi,
Be sure to set ALL parameters for the nic cards correctly to match the
ports on the switches. Ensure that ALL 'no options' are set correctly for
your environment.
Example:
AIX 433_ML_08:
100MB ethernet nic cards have the xmit/recieve buffer pools maxed out
100MB ethernet nic cards have the speed/duplex set to match switch ports
'no options' are set via an /etc/rc.{filename} called via /etc/inittab
via:
rctunenet:2:wait:/etc/rc.tunenet /dev/console 21 #Tune Network Parms
example:
/etc/rc.tunenet
if [ -f /usr/sbin/no ]
then
thewall=$(/usr/sbin/no -o thewall | awk '{ print $3 }')
if [ $thewall -lt 4096 ]
then
/usr/sbin/no -d thewall
else
print thewall is set to $thewall - left as is
fi
/usr/sbin/no -d thewall
/usr/sbin/no -d sb_max
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_sendspace=$thewall
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_recvspace=$thewall
/usr/sbin/no -o udp_sendspace=64000
/usr/sbin/no -o udp_recvspace=64000
/usr/sbin/no -o net_malloc_police=32768
/usr/sbin/no -o tcp_mssdflt=1452
/usr/sbin/no -o ipqmaxlen=150
/usr/sbin/no -o rfc1323=1
fi
print Network parameters tuned...
By allowing AIX_ML_08 to figure out the best settings for thewall/sb_max,
no -d thewall/sb_max, I do not have to go thru the issue of calculating it
anymore!!! Having gone thru the above scenario, my 100MB ethernet cloud
performs at, a minimum, 10MB/sec. A lot of the network traffic is logged at:
11MB/sec. We are now implementing a GIG ethernet network and I am looking
forward to working with it as well.
HTH.
Mr. Lindsey Thomson
BLDG:042/2F-065 IMA: 0422F065
11400 Burnet Rd., Austin, TX 78758
off) 512) 823 6522 / (TL) 793 6522
I never waste memory on things that can easily be stored
and retrieved from elsewhere.- Albert Einstein
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord - Psalm 33:12 Time is a great
teacher, but unfortunately it kills all
its pupils- Hector Berloiz
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Ignacio Vidal wrote:
Hi:
I'm managing a pretty small TSM installation with 4 RS/6K machines (2
6M1 and 2 6H1) running AIX 4.3.3 (ML9). TSM software consists of the
server (running in a 6M1 - 7Gb RAM), and the clients running in the
same machine and on the others.
I4ve got the following situation:
- the total of data backed up is about 200Gb's,
- 4 servers are connected using gigabit ethernet links (and have 6Gb
RAM and 7Gb RAM each model 6H1 and 6M1 respectively)
- TSM uses a storage pool of 240Gb on FastT500 disks (those are
connected by FC channels)
- TSM uses a 3581 library (LTO) with 1 drive,
The fact is (for the same set of information):
When I do an archive backup operation with TSM, the time elapsed
rounds 5 hours (TSM writes right to the tape). When I do an
incremental backup operation, TSM uses about 6:30hs for it (TSM writes
to storage pool).
I'm looking for a rational approach to solve this problem: isn't it
more fast writing to storage pool (disk) that to tape?
Anyone had the same performance problem?
Is it really a performance problem?
I would like some commentaries about this, I can provide some info
about the configuration of TSM and the AIX servers.
Regards
Ignacio
Re: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool
No sir! --- Seay, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running COLLOCATION on the Offsite pool? Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Lohnie Martineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 6:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool I'll try that, but I understood that the MAXPRocess parameter is 1 by default. I belive I can change the device class mount limit from drives to a number, but that would affect all sequential storagepools associated with it. ? --- Chris Gibes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to change the maxpr variable in the backup storagepool command. For example ba stg primary pool name copypool name maxpr=1 This will limit the copy operation to using one drive. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Lohnie Martineau Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to limit drive usage when writing to a copypool In a Win2000/TSM 4.2.1.5 environment with a 3584-LTO library: I have a situation where all available (4) tape drives are writing to four LTO tapes incremental copypool information. This results in four tapes being sent off-site with only 1-3% usage and a lot of unnecessary tape handling. Is there a way to limit the copypool writes to one or two drives without affecting the rest of the environment? Thanks in advance, LohnieM __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com
Re: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000
Incremental backup process all of the system ojbects on our Windows 2000 Domain Controllers. I've done full restores with many client versions including 4.2.1.20 and 4.12.12. The default is to include system objects with DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL. What is your domain statement? Have you done a q systemobject from the b/a command line? Tim Rushforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: Julie Phinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backing up Active Directory on Win2000 Hi all, I'm not familiar with Active Directory on Win2000 but I've been told by one of our Win2000 guys : There is a System Object selection list that includes the following items to backup using TSM: Active Directory, COM+ DB, Event Log, Registry, RSM, System Files, System Volume But it appears like only the following System Objects are currently being selected for backup: Event Log Registry RSM I'm wondering if by default, incremental backup does not back up all of the System Objects? Do I need to specify something in the DSM.OPT file or in a client optionset to get it to do all the system objects in Active Directory? Thanks, Julie Phinney
Re: Mount request denied
This sounds like APAR IC32821, which is fixed in TSM 4.2.2.0. I have heard that it is also being retrofitted in 4.1.x, but it is not available yet. This APAR talks about Sequential volumes may become inaccessible because they may be inadvertently be left in in use status, preventing them from being used further. A bypass for this is to restart the TSM application. At 04:16 PM 5/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: Fred Thanks , Here are the OS and TSM information- OS Aix 4.3.3.0 Storage Management Server for AIX-RS/6000 - Version 4, Release 1, Level 4.0 - - Original Message - From: Fred Johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:53 PM Subject: Re: Mount request denied What version and what OS? We have seen this sporadically with 4.1.4.5 on AIX 4.3.3. Some days the only way to get out of it is to recycle the machine. At 02:50 PM 5/16/2002 -0700, you wrote: Error Messages (TSM on AIX Server) 05/15/02 06:41:44 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400142 - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:41:44 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400219 - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:52:52 ANR1404W Scratch volume mount request denied - mount failed. 05/15/02 06:52:52 ANR0525W Transaction failed for session 4459 for node NT_COMP_S131 (WinNT) - storage media inaccessible. I have done thefollowing tasks. 7 checked the volumes which got error message in the log are in the library with readw status for private. 7 NO changes to devclass or in TSM. 7 There are enough scratch volumes are available in the library. 7 We had a problem with the griper last week and IBM Support Fixed that and we start getting such problem after that but Hardware support person has not upgrade or de-grade any micro -code on 3494 system or 3590 drives. 7 At this point Library and drives are working fine 7 In a later session I tried to move the data and it worked fine. 7 After the failed messages, Most of the time process or schedules get completed successfully. 7 This causes restore/retrieves/reclamation/migration to fail, rather than queue, until a drive becomes available (nothing mounted. Some time the failed restarted process works fine. I also found in a later try that all drive were idel and migration failed with the following error message 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library ATL3494. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 400491 - mount failed. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR0985I Process 1478 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 12:37:36. 05/16/02 12:37:36 ANR1081W Space reclamation terminated for volume 400585 storage media inaccessible. tsm: AIX_ADSM_SERVERq mo ANR8329I 3590 volume 400068 is mounted R/W in drive 3590E_RMT5 (/dev/rmt5), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400159 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT6 (/dev/rmt6), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400796 is mounted R/W in drive 3590E_RMT3 (/dev/rmt3), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400034 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT0 (/dev/rmt0), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400095 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT4 (/dev/rmt4), status: IDLE. ANR8329I 3590 volume 400600 is mounted R/O in drive 3590E_RMT2 (/dev/rmt2), status: IDLE. ANR8334I 6 volumes found. Any idea why this is happening. Money is not the root of all evil - full backups are.
Re: Urgent: server down , lvmAddVol error on restart
If your server level is 4.1.x or lower then THE ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM SIZE OF A LOG IS 5.3 gb. On Thu, 16 May 2002, chris rees wrote: Hi ALL In a bit of a pickle. TSM server has crashed as the log filled up. The log size is 5196M. I have dsmfmt another log file of 1024Mb and tried to do dsmserv extend log /volumename 100 but get the dreaded lvmAddVol error. I thought the limit was 5.5Gb hence would have expected to be able to extend this. any ideas TIA Chris _ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Re: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server?
Bob, We have determined that there is a problem with the 4.2.2 UNIX backup-archive clients and they have been pulled from the ftp server. We are working to correct the problem. Expect to see a flash from IBM Tivoli shortly. Thanks, J.P. (Jim) Smith TSM Development Has someone reported this? I have not heard anything about UNIX clients at 4.2.2 having problems.. The Windows client still has the 422 directory and LATEST link. IBM/Tivoli? bob On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 04:24:14PM -0400, David Longo wrote: Perhaps because there seems to be some problems with some of the 4.2.2. stuff? David Longo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/16/02 03:59PM I went out there earlier today myself and found what you found too. I'm curious too. Dave Pearson -Original Message- From: Bob Booth - UIUC [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM 422 client gone from ftp server? Does anyone know why or where the TSM 4.2.2 clients for some platforms are now missing from the IBM ftp server? 422 and LATEST are no longer out there for AIX, Solaris .. Among others.. Whats up? thanks, bob MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 05/16/02 16:39:37 -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ==
tdpoconf, error, ANU2534E
Hi List, I`ve been trying to install TDP for Oracle for AIX 2.2.1 in a AIX 5.1 box, but I can not make the utility TDPOCONF work, it seems that my tdpo.opt file is not right but I cant not find where the problem is, when I issue and tdpoconf showenv or try to set the password I get an ANU 2534E Option file error the file tdpoerror.log is not very helpful, can somebody send me a working tdpo.opt/dsm.opt/dsm.sys set so i can use them as example? thanks for your help. Luis _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
