Hi Giuseppe,
I have tested the lan free backup in a similar
environment. I recommend you updating the API and
client version. On the other hand, when the backup is
not lan free it goes through lan, then it is possible
you have problems in the configuration. But the most
of pb are solved updating
Hi David,
try the option Nwignorecompressbit yes in the dsm.opt.
Depending on various parameters NetWare compresses files from time to time.
This will change the compress atrribute and TSM will backup this changed
file.
With nwignorecompressbit = yes the attribute is ignored while TSM
Hi TSMers
TSM server 3.7.3.8 running on Solaris 2.7 machine. Getting the following
message for one of our NT client nodes.
04/01/02 22:14:20 ANR0534W Transaction failed for session 43012 for node
PUBEARLY (WinNT) - size estimate exceeded and server is
add an option to your node's opt file:
compressalways yes
regards,
burak
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Indeed, it took almost 31 hours to complete this generate backupset. But I
thought it might be because of the 1902700 files which were to process.
19.03.02 11:31:47 ANR2750I Starting scheduled command
MONTHLY_BACKUPSET_CHZF0704 ( GENERATE BACKUPSET
Hi Stumpf
I must admit that seeing as TSM does manage to complete the rest of the
backup, It should also retry the failed file. Free space could then be
available.
Did you actually change any of your settings to solve the problem?
Thanks for your reply
Farren :)
Stumpf, Joachim [EMAIL
Hi Farren,
2 weeks ago I had a pmr open at IBM about this problem.
This happens if the storagepool backuppool runs full during your clients backing up
and you have compressalways yes in your dsm.opt.
I opened the pmr at IBM because I was not sure if the file that the TSM tried to
backup was
We use the following command:
echo '/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc schedule /dev/null 21
/dev/null' | at now
Regards,
Beat Largo
Zurich Switzerland
IT SC - Shared Service Center
Storage Management, IFS
Unterrohrstr. 5
Postfach
8952 Schlieren
Phone: +4116258214 / Fax +4116258061
Hi TSM'rs
Just thought that I would share with you all a recent
TSM incident involving TDP for Exchange v2.2 running on a Windows 2000
Server.
A little over 8 months ago a problem arose where we could not
get the Exchange TDP to install on a Windows 2000 server. After
Hi Farren,
This error occurs when during a backup the TSM storage pool exceeds its
max disk pool size. You could prevent this by lowering your HI
migration. This will cause the TSM server disk pool to be emptied as
soon as it reaches the HI limit and hopefully won't fill up all the way.
You
Hi i have posted this 2 times before here but havent receved a reply yet.
thus led me to belive that knowlegde on this is wery limited.
I have a big custemer who is considerating TSM for there backup system.
However, they will be needing to take some of there backup offsite.
They have extremly
Hi,
i have TSM 4.1 server installed in AIX. the problem is that I have client installed in
AIX and it is been backedup everyday but some times when I check the activity log in
the server I cant find the backup information about that node . I only find it in the
dsmsched.log in the client.
Hi Farren,
I changed compressalways to no.
With compressalways yes it happens like this:
The client sends the estimated filesize to the server. But the file grows up during
compression and is send greater than estimated. The backuppool is 99% full and the
server cant store the file in the
Thanks to all who replied to this message
Very much appreciated
Farren :)
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Hello,
I observed some strange behaviour of a 3590-E1A tape drive. During a
migrate operation from a disk pool to a sequential pool I watched the
operator panel. There I could see that the device after a write operation
did a locate followed by a read and then resumed writing. I observed this
Hi!
I am running reclamation for a copy pool and there are two tapes in the
pool that have reclaimed all of the data except for the last 1%.
Reclamation runs and pulls these volumes in about every hour(I don't have
reclamation jobs set to run at certain times).
04/01/2002 00:56:46 ANR1040I
Petur
Although my knowledge is limited, my understanding is the data in the
offsite storage pools can only be accessed by the TSM database which created
them.
regards
Andy
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From: Pétur Eyþórsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 02 April 2002 13:05
To: [EMAIL
Generally seen with cached diskpools and files that grow with compression...
TSM pre-allocates based on listed size by the OS and in the case of cached
diskpools, frees that amount of cached space to take the file.
If you have compression yes and compressalways yes AND if a file grows
during
Hi
I'm having some problems with the TSM NetWare Client 4.2.1. No matter what I try, I
can't seem to attach a specific Management Class to the Server Specific Info in the
DSM.OPT file. I have been able to set a specific management class on the filesystem,
and the NDS by using the following
I observed some strange behaviour of a 3590-E1A tape drive. During a
migrate operation from a disk pool to a sequential pool I watched the
operator panel. There I could see that the device after a write operation
did a locate followed by a read and then resumed writing. I observed this
behaviour
We are getting ready to install lan-free on Win 2000 clients with an AIX
4.3.3 TSM 4.2.1.7 server. What level of the API, Client, and Storage Agent
code would you recommend using? The only one I see released is 4.2.1.0
Hi Giuseppe,
I have tested the lan free backup in a similar
environment. I
try audit vol command with fix=yes option then upgrade your TSM server
to avoid further problems
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Hi Joni!
Try an AUDIT VOLUME 483401 FIX=YES
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
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Subject: Volume Problem
Hi!
I am running reclamation for a copy
Paul, I thought he might be talking about the client, too, because he
mentioned 4.2.1.20 in his original post. But from the follow-up he
posted, he must be talking about his TSM server.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
Internal Notes
We are running W2K with TDP4LD 1.1.2 version.
We have an F: drive for Transaction logs and E: drive for mail and data.
We have a normal / full backup each Saturday and Transactionlog backup
each 6 hourly schedule.
We also have n eod archive each day at 7pm.
Seems our server is creating a
Thank you so much! It worked
Joni Moyer
Associate Systems Programmer
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Burak Demircan
I think u update to scratch and checkout with force=yes option and try.
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Subject: Re: Volume Problem
try audit vol command with fix=yes option then upgrade your
From where did you get your information about TSM encryption? When files
are included for encryption, the data is encrypted when it is sent to the
server. The server does not decrypt it before putting it in the storage
pools.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage
Do not go by the individual file version information. The official TSM
version number is the number that is reported when you start the TSM
server (i.e. 4.2.1.0).
You can also determine the TSM version number by doing any of these:
a) Issue the QUERY STATUS command from the Admin CLI. The first
Here's how i wait on a process to finish. Basically i query the process and if it's
still running i re-spawn the schedule for ten minutes later. If you have any questions
please let me know.
john
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HI,
How do you start your schedule? If it is cron or at - it will not show up in
the server log - Only schedules initiated by the server scheduler will write
messages to the server log.
Hope that helps.
Jane Bamberger
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Jane Bamberger
IS Department
Bassett Healthcare
Hi, I was just wondering where you found the information stating that the data was
only protected on the way to the server, but not on the server. Encryption is done by
the client using an encrytion key that it create and since the key is never passed
from client to server, there is no way
Brilliant, thanks I was planning to install it. This will surely help.
Saludos / Regards
Arshad Munir Sharif
IT Group, Kuwait Oil Company
Kuwait.
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From: Gary Swanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tue, April 02, 2002
Craig,
If you are using a single TSM server and you do not plan to use LAN-Free
clients (which I believe you are from the message below), then you can use
TSM's native ACSLS communication drivers. However, if you are using LAN-Free
clients in addition to your TSM server, where each client will
This is not true. Most of our UNIX clients are run from cron and we get the
session summary in the server actlog. We use this data to tell the clients
if they had any failed files. Our server is at 3.7.4 and we have various
clients from 3.1 to 4.2.
--
Phillip Ford
Senior Software Specialist
I am having the same problem. I am on TSM v4.1.4.4. I delete the tape,
with discardd=yes, and I get return code 13. I try move data, and I get
ANR2209W Volume 101198 contains no data.. I have 7 tapes in this
state. I will be calling Tivoli, but I have not gotten to it yet.
Andy
On Tue, 2
In Petur's defense, I think he is trying to say he could not find anywhere
that specifically said data in a Seq. Access Storage Pool, that goes
offsite will be encrypted. I can't see where he says he read a document
that says it is not encrypted.
Jon
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From: Jack
Try audit volume XX fix=yes
XX= volumename
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My question was conserning 2 things.
If you use Encryption. Cant people who get a hold of the TSM Database and
the Copy Storage Pools, restore the data, whether the data was back up with
Encrytpion or not?
If you make a bakup set from the data back up. is ther Encryption on that
data? if not
The amount of information the TSM client reports to the server log
varies from client version to client version. We experienced that some
important messages like filename too long don't get reported to the
server log and the number of objects failed in the summary most times is
much larger than
To control the length of character fields you can use:
CHAR(expression,n)
LEFT(exppression,n)
RIGHT(expression,n)
where n is the length of the string you want returned
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From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 10:08 AM
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any experiences with filecollocation on this list ?
we want to speed up our restores and are thinking of filecollocation.
i know, we will need a lot of tapes more for a while,
what will happen to the existing tapes, must i move all data on them ?
regards
Michael Heiermann
OD1 Systembetreuung
Is there any way to find out from TSM what volumes are in the I/O port?
Thanks
Joe
Not to my knowledge. Of course you didn't mention your specifics.
Model of Tape Library, TSM version, TSM server platform.
If on AIX platform with IBM Libraries, the tapeutil can inventory
all slots in library including Robot slots and give you this info.
You can work with it and put together a
There is no additional encryption performed by the TSM server. The
encrypted data sent by the client remains, of course, encrypted when it is
copied to a copy storage pool or backup set (or anywhere else in the TSM
hierarchy).
Files that were encrypted when they were backed up can not be
My understanding from what I've read (I've never used it) is...
Clients set an encryption key (password) on the files they'd like to protect.
Files are sent to the TSM server, encrypted.
The TSM server does NOT have the encryption key, although the key may be
saved to disk on a client's
HI,
You are right - we do get a summary - but nothing in the sched queries -
sorry.. wrong information.
Jane
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Bassett Healthcare
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Hi,
We use file collacation on a couple of domains - critical restore needs -
and I believe from class the collocation can be forced by moving data - or
wait until all reclaimation occurs naturally. You will eventually end up
with all the clients collocated - instead of tying up your tape
Maybe...
try doing a
mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -qC -s'FF10'
I believe until a tape is physically removed it retains the Eject category
(FF10)
Funny thing I heard related to this this.
STK held a patent on reading volsers in the I/O bay so with IBM 3494's the
only thing the scanner does when
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:11:26 +0100, Daniel Sparrman
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And the FC attached 3584 uses SCSI address translation against WWN. We've
got this running today on AIX, and if you do a lsdev -C|grep rmt, you will
get the scsi addresses for each drive. Same with the
Try
select node_name,filespace_name,cast((backup_end) as varchar(10)) as Date
from adsm.filespaces where (cast((current_timestamp-backup_end)day as
decimal(18,0))2 )
or
select node_name,filespace_name,cast((backup_end) as varchar(10)) as Date
from adsm.filespaces where
Hello all,
In the life of ever changing requirements... I must include in an
e-mail sent to a PC user that they missed a backup, exactly how long it has
been since they were backed up.
I am scanning the log to see what schedules were MISSED. But
now for each node that was
thanks you all for your answers.
But i just want to make one thing sure.
I still need the Encryption key for the Backup Sets if i back up the client
with Encryption?
Kvedja/Regards
Petur Eythorsson
Taeknimadur/Technician
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
Tivoli Storage Manager Certified
As I said below, files that were encrypted when they were backed up can
not be restored without the encryption key. It does not matter from which
media you do the restore.
If you try to restore but do not have the encryption key, then you will
not be able to restore the data, and IBM support
It's pretty clearly stated in the 3.7.3 and 4.1 tech guide (SG24-6110),
page 56: ... data stored on the Tivoli Storage Manager server is
encrypted and thus unreadable by any malicious administrators.
_
William Mansfield
Senior Consultant
Solution Technology, Inc
I ran some open ended query commands. They run very fast. I can run QUERY
NODE DT* F=D (all our desk top nodes start with DT) and have the output go
into one file and a QUERY FI DT* F=D with the output going to another file.
Use SAS (or REXX if I was any good at it) to do the sort/merge to
If you are not aware .. FYI
SECURITY: MULTIPLE BUFFER OVERFLOW VULNERABILITIES IN TSMLOGIN
Created:01/04/2002 at 03:22 PM
Published Date: 01/04/2002
OS or Applications Affected: AIX
Versions Affected: 4.3
Severity:
It is a Compaq DLT 9326DX DLT Library using Windows 2000 as the OS.
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From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 10:41 AM
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Subject: Re: pulling information from TSM and the SCSI
Not to my knowledge. Of course you
HI we had a failure of our TSM server running AIX 4.3.3 and TSM 4.1.3
one of the errors we are getting is the following:
ANR4570E Database backup/restore terminated - device class DBB not defined
this is not happening if we do the scheduled one manually. this is only
happening with the
I assume you're talking about dbbackups instead of restores.
If you do a query dbbackuptrigger what DEVclass and INCRDEVclass is it set
to use? If you do a query devclass do those devclasses exist? What
devclass is your manual dbbackup using?
Alex Paschal
Storage Administrator
Freightliner,
yes that is right, it was looking for DBB when I did the query it
wasn't there! the manual /scheduled one is using the tapepool or devclass
offsite. I recreated a DBB devclass and the DB trigger worked. of course
that doesn't explain where it went!
thanks any idea on the other ?
I was away for most of the past week and am just getting back to this
question now. I passed the thread on to our NTFS guy because we are still
having problems with the last accessed date being set during TSM backup
scheduled runs on our file servers (these servers are virus protected with
CA's
Isn't/Wasn't this taken care of in ML8?
Gabriel Wiley
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Subject: Anyone know how to have TSM script read an input file?
Hello all,
In the life of ever changing requirements... I must include in an
e-mail
TSM does not use the NT Backup APIs; rather, it uses the Win32 File I/O
functions for accessing files.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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The only
Are these buffer overflows related to a tty overrun?
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Isn't/Wasn't this taken care of in ML8?
We put this feature (user notification of failed backups) into our
Servergraph/TSM product a while ago. Some gotchas you might want to think
about, if you're developing it yourself:
--for laptops, you don't want to send this notification immediately. Maybe
the user is out of town for a few
Well, I have seen situations where a full recovery log causes that, and I've
seen situations where I audited a bad volume and all the damaged files were
dumped into the activity log so fast that it stopped logging anything to the
activity log. I haven't had it happen recently, since I learned to
Hi all,
VirtualMountPoint for Linux ?
Thanks.
Elenara.
See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed guitar
http://r.lycos.com/r/bmgfly_mail_dmb/http://win.ipromotions.com/lycos_020201/splash.asp
Actually, why not continue using the same method already in place? There's
nothing inherently different between the two platforms that would require a
change -- only your operations preferences (and control) for managing the
inventory. There is (currently) no feature to protect one storage pool
Apparently not. I have ML 09 plus a couple of security patches and
I just checked with instfix and IY26443 is not included. I think ML08
or ML 09 had a telnet security patch.
David Longo
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Isn't/Wasn't this taken care of in ML8?
For the exclusion of 'old' filespaces and for clients not be checked we
utilise the 'Contact' column in the nodes table.
To excluded a filespace(s) the contact details will be prefixed with
XFS1,3,4. where the numeric represents the filespace id.
To exclude the entire clilent from being
I can't tell you if it was fixed in ML8 we went from ML3 to ML9 overnight
(or a very long weekend) ..
The security people, waived it in my face the other day and said get it
fixed.
Since we are at ML9 + there was no need , it was already there.
If you go to the software website it says you
Thomas,
This sounds like a recurring bug; did you try adjusting IDLETIMEOUT in
dsmserv.opt?
Alternatively, could you identify the session holding the tape (via q se
f=d)??? If so, then you can at least cancel the offending session (should
be in idle-wait, anyway).
Did Level 2 give you any
Andy,
I have verified this behavior to my satisfaction. I see my tests fell into
this hole. Who woulda thunk?
Thank you much for shedding light on this. I guess I will have to take back
my statement about TSM not updating the file access time. sigh
As an aside, I did the same things on
Ended up going to level2 support and we were able to edit the records back
to 2002. Interesting process. I've been out for a couple of days but I see
that the next problem is that TDS has stored the last entry it was using in
the summary table...So it is still issuing the query for records after
H...
We were looking at an updated version of Norton Antivirus that has a feature
to not scan files that are Opened for backup - According to the Norton
technical document: This setting causes NAVCE to ignore backup open calls,
which are the specific API's that are used by backup software.
TSM uses the Win32 File I/O CreateFile() function to open files for
backup. We do pass in the FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag when we open the
file, so maybe NAVCE somehow detects this. But I don't know for sure.
Regards,
Andy
Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client
Ain't going to work! Get to 4.2.1.11 or higher on your TSM Server and your
Storage Agent Client. Look in the patches directory.
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From: Linda Seeba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 8:05 AM
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Also, if the length of the field is unknown as in a numeric text that you
want to evaluate you can do a TRIM on it to remove the blanks so that you
can convert it to a decimal number.
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From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:54 AM
When the tape stops during writing it must backup and get the tape moving
again before it can write to it. This is normal. I have seen this also on
NetBackup and TSM. It is an internal hardware thing. This is very fast on
a 3590 and very slow on other tape offerings.
-Original
The Update Path command is new to TSM 5.1. It looks like this is a message
that should not be appearing - yet. Maybe someone from support could
comment on this?
At 02:59 PM 4/2/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Hello All,
Where is the syntax for the update path command to be found?
I have looked in all
Hi,
I have a client on AIX4.3.3 and i am using the schedule to do the backup. the problem
is : the schedule cant get to its normal status after the backup finish and keep
trying to send the result of the backup to the server every 12 hours. the only way i
know to solve it is to restart the
Hi,
I have about 40 cartridges (3570) volumed in a strange naming convention and
they all contain data. Now I like to rename all of them with barcode labels.
Is it possible to rename a FULL volume without interfering the data or do I
have
to move the data and use label libv command?
I started collocation for a few weeks.
It works well. However the migration to tapes is rather long (one tape for
one client) and this parameter is coded for the entire pool not for
specific clients
The tapes are emptied when your start reclamation and the active files on
these old tapes go
you cannot re-label the tape with data, it will scratch the tape. Use move
data and label libvol.
Saludos / Regards
Arshad Munir Sharif
IT Group, Kuwait Oil Company
Kuwait.
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-Original Message-
From: Burak Demircan [mailto:[EMAIL
Hello everybody!
First of all, I am sorry if this topic has been discussed before.. I am new to this
group...
I am running a Windows 2000 SP2 server, with IE6 and all the patches/updates I have
found..
Backup is taken to an ADSM server via TSM Backup Client Version 4, Release 1, Level
3.0.
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