Tape in scratch question

2013-12-20 Thread mik
Hi everybody, I have another question, today the database don't backup on a scratch tape because failure to excessive write error. The tape use is still in scratch and i don't want to reuse this tape the tapedriver was not near and i don't do a checkout volume and take this tape so i'am trying

Re: Tape in scratch question

2013-12-20 Thread Karel Bos
Create a dummy stg pool and add the defective tapr into it Op 20 dec. 2013 11:02 schreef mik tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com: Hi everybody, I have another question, today the database don't backup on a scratch tape because failure to excessive write error. The tape use is still in scratch and i

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hi Wanda, I'm using Deduplication and have found that tsm life would be much easier if the stg pool was kept smaller under 3TB in size. I haven't done enough testing with this, and I know it is slightly counterproductive to achieve the highest deduplication savings. But it sure does make the

Re: Tape in scratch question

2013-12-20 Thread Remco Post
Op 20 dec. 2013, om 11:01 heeft mik tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com het volgende geschreven: Hi everybody, I have another question, today the database don't backup on a scratch tape because failure to excessive write error. The tape use is still in scratch and i don't want to reuse this tape

Re: TSM/VME renames

2013-12-20 Thread Ehresman,David E.
An experiment last night leads me to believe (N=1) that a renamed VM will take a full backup even if you rename its filespace to match its new VM name. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: Thursday,

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
Wanda, In trying to troubleshoot an unrelated performance PMR, IBM provided me with an e-fix for the dedupdel bottleneck that it sounds like you're experiencing. They obviously will want to do their due-diligence on whether or not this efix will help solve your problems, but it has proved very

Thanks Re: [ADSM-L] Virtual I/O in TS3500

2013-12-20 Thread George Huebschman
Hi, W ! Always nice to hear from an old friend. I needed to dig deeper in the guide. I was looking under ALMS and Virtual IO for a setting to change. I should have been in Logical Libraries. Got it. Thanks for the nudge. George Huebschman (George H.) Neither absorb, reflect, magnify, nor

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread James R Owen
Sergio and Wanda, Thanks for your posts! I opened PMR 10702,L6Q,000 a couple weeks ago for slow performance [recently completely fell off the cliff!] with our SRV3 TSM v6.3.4.200 service that *was* successfully doing client+server deduplication for 72TB BackupDedup STGpool on NetApp FC [soon to

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Prather, Wanda
Woo hoo! That's great news. Will open a ticket and escalate. Also looking at client-side dedup, but I have to do some architectural planning, as all the data is coming from one client, the TSM VE data mover, which is a vm. Re client-side dedup, do you know if there is any cooperation

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Prather, Wanda
Please do post results - expiration just ran for me, queue 30M! 45 TB dedup pool -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of James R Owen Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 11:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L]

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
Client-side dedup and simultaneous-write to a copy pool are mutually exclusive. You can't do both, which is the only theoretical way to enforce deduprequiresbackup with client-side dedup. I suppose IBM could enhance TSM to do a simultaneous-like operation with client-side dedup, but that's not

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Marouf, Nick
I can second that Sergio, Backup stgpools to copy tapes is not pretty, and is an intensive process to rehydrate all that data. The one extra thing I did was split the database across multiple folder for parallel I/O to the Database. That has worked out very well, and I currently have it

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Skylar Thompson
While we don't do deduplication (tests show we gain less than 25% from it), we also split our DB2 instances across multiple, physically-separate volumes. The one thing to note is that you have to dump and restore the database to spread existing data across those directories if you add them

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Erwann Simon
Hi All, Is someone using this script for reporting purpose ? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21596944 -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON - Mail original - De: Wanda Prather wanda.prat...@icfi.com À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Vendredi 20

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Is anyone doing stgpool backups to a dedup file copy pool? At 02:23 PM 12/20/2013, Marouf, Nick wrote: I can second that Sergio, Backup stgpools to copy tapes is not pretty, and is an intensive process to rehydrate all that data. The one extra thing I did was split the database across

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Marouf, Nick
Hi Skylar ! Yes that would be the easy way do it, there is an option to rebalance the I/O after you add the new file systems to the database. I had already setup TSM before the performance tuning guideline was released. Doing this way, will require more storage initially and running

Re: Deduplication number of chunks waiting in queue continues to rise?

2013-12-20 Thread Colwell, William F.
Hi Wanda, some quick rambling thoughts about dereferenced chunk cleanup. Do you know about the 'show banner' command? If IBM sends you an e-fix, this will tell you what it is fixing. tsm: xshow banner * EFIX Cumulative