We have VM Ware VSphere with VCenter running on a Windows 2003 SP2 server and
TSM 5.5. Has anyone encountered any problems in using TSM to back up VCenter?
Thanks Regards
Paul
Paul Dudley
Senior IT Systems Administrator
ANL Container Line Pty Limited
Email: pdud...@anl.com.au
I am getting an error on a couple of Windows 2003 SP2 servers - one has MS 2005
SQL Express and the other has the full MS 2005 SQL installed.
The TDP SQL client software is version 5.3.3.0 and I have also installed the
22699_4 patch.
The error is - ACO5423E Microsoft ODBC SQL Server Driver
Is it possible to assign scratch volumes to a specific device class? We have
TSM 5.5 with an IBM TS3200 tape library. It has a mixture of LTO4 and LTO3
tapes in it.
Various processes keep using LTO4 scratch tapes when I direct them to use LTO3
tapes, and vice a versa.
For example running
We have recently installed TSM 5.5 on a new server and using a new IBM TS3200
tape library.
It took some time to migrate the data over from the tapes used in the old tape
library to the new (migrating data from LTO2 LTO3 tapes to LTO4 tapes) but
that has finally finished.
While that was
We have TSM 5.5. Shortly after this was originally setup at the start of this
year data from the DIRMC storage pool was migrated to tape due to the settings
for the DIRMC storage pool not being correct. Now 9 months later the DIRMC
storage pool is still only at 3% of capacity. The migrated data
Each weekday morning we run the following command backup stg BKPLTO4POOL
COPYPOOL_LTO3 to backup the data that has been backed up overnight onto LTO3
tapes and then checkout these LTO3 tapes and send them offsite. I have a
reclaimation process running on a daily basis for the COPYPOOL_LTO3
Lakshminarayanan
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Subject: [ADSM-L] Copypool storage pool questions
Each weekday morning we run the following command backup stg
No I do not have collocation turned on for that storage pool. Offsite tapes are
coming back when they are defined as empty after the reclaimation and
expiration processes have done their work. However as part of the reclaimation
process on that storage pool it is using tapes onsite that are in
Thanks for the reply but one thing I am still confused about are these copypool
tapes sitting in my onsite tape library. Given that the primary reason for this
copypool is for offsite tapes, should these copypool tapes currently residing
in my tape library (created by reclaimation processes) be
Subject: [ADSM-L] Deleting ALL tapes from a defunct TSM server from Volhist
Back in 2008 there was a thread on forcing the deletion of individual
tapes from a defunct TSM server.
http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/ADSM-L/2008-06/msg00068.html
del volhist todate=today type=remote
Our primary tape backup pool is set to keep 5 versions of each file. Each
morning the overnight incremental backups into this storage pool are copied
into the copypool and then these tapes are sent offsite. Is there anyway to
setup the copypool so that it only has the last 2 versions of each
/2011 6:10 PM, Paul_Dudley wrote:
Our primary tape backup pool is set to keep 5 versions of each file. Each
morning
the overnight incremental backups into this storage pool are copied into the
copypool and then these tapes are sent offsite. Is there anyway to setup the
copypool so that it only
I currently have a lot of copypool storage tapes which are between 50 - 60%
utilization. Expiration runs daily and I run reclaimation daily on this
copypool, set to 50.
Is there anything I can do to try and consolidate the data onto fewer copypool
tapes?
Thanks Regards
Paul
Paul Dudley
The copypool is on LTO3 tapes. They are not database backups just incremental
server backups
Thanks Regards
Paul
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It would be helpful to know what kind of the tape technology you're using
since the
reclamation threshold % is usually based off which technology
Collocation for the storage pool is set to none. No I am not using the du=
parameter on the reclaim commands. I check the log and they do finish
successfully.
They are a mixture of full and filling tapes. They are all set as offsite.
Thanks Regards
Paul
I currently have a lot of copypool
they're in the library, they won't be
reclaimed if they're in FILLING status, as I recall.
I love a good puzzle. I'm just not sure how many things I'm taking for
granted about
how you're using TSM. :-)
Nick
On Apr 10, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Paul_Dudley wrote:
Collocation for the storage pool
Is it possible to interrogate the TSM database with an SQL query to display the
list of backed up files whose size is larger than - for example - 160 Mbs?
I understand that this will be a query that will take a while to run so I am
prepared to run it on the weekend. While the total number of
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On Jul 17, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Paul_Dudley wrote:
Is it possible to interrogate the TSM database with an SQL query to display
the
list of backed up files whose size is larger than - for example - 160 Mbs?
I understand that this will be a query that will take
We have an IBM TS3200 tape library, which takes both LTO4 LTO3 tapes. The I/O
cartridge has capacity to slot in 3 tapes at a time. However I am not sure what
is the correct command to check in 3 scratch tapes at the one time and get the
tape library to search the I/O cartridge for each of the
We have a linux shell script which we use to create our offsite copypool tapes.
Basically the commands are:
backup stg SQLDB_LTO4 SQLDB_COPYPOOL wait=yes
backup stg BKPLTO4POOL COPYPOOL_LTO3 wait=yes
Our primary SQL storage pool is SQLDB_DISKPOOL and it's secondary pool for data
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Xav Paice
- Paul_Dudley pdud...@anl.com.au wrote:
On the SQL servers I have included the SQL database folder in the
Exclude-Include configuration of the normal TSM backup setup
Re your line None of them has data from more than one client
Has collocation been turned on by accident?
Thanks Regards
Paul
So, I've got an offsite machine which exists to accept remote virtual
volumes. For years, now, the filling volumes have behaved in a way I
thought I
We have a mixture of LTO3 and LTO4 tapes in the one tape library. Our primary
disk backup storage pool - BKPPOOL - is set to migrate to BKPLTO4POOL when it
reaches 90% full.
The storage pool BKPLTO4POOL is set to device class LTO4CLASS. We also have
device class LTO3CLASS for the LTO3 tapes.
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Thanks Regards
Paul
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Paul,
Can you please post q devc LTO4CLASS f=d
Steve
Steven Harris
TSM Admin
Canberra Australia
On 17.04.2012 19:35, Paul_Dudley wrote:
We have a mixture of LTO3
Hi all,
I am trying to install the TSM client on Red Hat linux version ES 5.7.
TIVsm-API-5.2.0-0 has installed OK via the rpm command however I have run into
the problem below:
rpm -i TIVsm-BA.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 is needed by
.2 yum whatprovides */libXp.so.6
will tell you what is missing.
HTH
Grant
On 13/09/12 11:43, Paul_Dudley wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to install the TSM client on Red Hat linux version ES 5.7.
TIVsm-API-5.2.0-0 has installed OK via the rpm command however I have run
into the problem below
We have TSM v6.3. On two Windows 2012 64bit servers we have the TDP Storage
Flashcopy manager v3.2.1.0 client.
Both of these servers run MS SQL Server 2012.
I would like to restore databases backed up on one server to the other. The
databases are backed up using the tdpsqlc backup * full
More research and testing on the issue below seems to indicate that I have to
change the backup type from VSS to Legacy to fully enable the Restore Alternate
Location option on the target server.
Thanks Regards
Paul
We have TSM v6.3. On two Windows 2012 64bit servers we have the TDP Storage
We have recently changed from PVU based licensing to the Unified/Terabyte based
licensing model on TSM.
What do I need to do on the TSM system itself to update the licensing? Is there
a file that needs to be updated or a command that needs to be run?
When I run q lic it is still showing the
If I have nodes that are currently under a policy that keeps 5 backup versions,
can I move them to another policy which keeps only 2 backup versions?
Will TSM then start expiring all the older backup versions of files which are
no longer needed?
We have two nodes which are taking up a lot of
I have wasted hours of my life on the Passport Advantage site going around in
circles. Of any website by any major manufacturer of any product, it is far and
away the worst I have ever encountered.
Thanks & Regards
Paul
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enable sandiscovery:
setopt sandiscovery on
or read the devicedriver documentation of the IBM Tape driver on how to enable
persistent naming, which makes life much easier.
--
Michael Prix
Am 17.03.2016 um 01:21 schrieb Paul_Dudley:
> Further to my message below, the "q library f=d&q
y on
or read the devicedriver documentation of the IBM Tape driver on how to enable
persistent naming, which makes life much easier.
--
Michael Prix
Am 17.03.2016 um 01:21 schrieb Paul_Dudley:
> Further to my message below, the "q library f=d" command does display details
> about t
.6 libtype=scsi shared=no resetd=no
autolabel=no relabelscr=no serial=00L4U78L0331_LL0
ANR8529E UPDATE LIBRARY: Unable to open library LB0.1.0.6 by using an open
system call.
ANS8001I Return code 11.
Thanks & Regards
Paul
From: Paul_Dudley [mailto:pdud...@anl.com.au]
Sent: Thursd
We are running TSM version 6.3 on a Windows 2008 server with an IBM TS3200 tape
library. The windows server crashed overnight. It has been rebooted and is
working ok now however TSM will not talk to the tape library drives.
I have powered the tape library off and on and have also performed a
To keep track of our primary storage usage, on a weekly basis I run the
following command:
query auditocc pooltype=primary
For one of the nodes - an SQL server - it is reporting that the backup storage
used is 7Tb.
However knowing the size of the databases on that server and the number of
, 27 July 2016 2:33 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] query auditocc question
Paul,
The metrics displayed by Q AUDITOCC are updated by AUDIT LICENSE; not in real
time.
..Paul
(sent from my iPhone)
On Jul 26, 2016, at 9:37 PM, Paul_Dudley
<pdud...@anl.com.au<mailto:pdud...@
uery auditocc question
Perhaps the following query would give you better data:
select node_name,sum(reporting_mb) as "TOTAL_OCCUPANCY" from occupancy group by
node_name
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Subject: RE: query auditocc question
Thanks. I ran this command and it ran successfully and provided me with a list
of totals.
However they are a lot higher than wh
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Betreff: [ADSM-L] query occupancy command - file names
The query occupancy command below shows 283 files in the bkplto6pool
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Thanks. I ran this command and it ran successfully and provided me with a list
of totals.
However they are a lot higher than what
The query occupancy command below shows 283 files in the bkplto6pool storage
pool for this filespace. Is it possible to get a list of the file names?
tsm: TSMANL>query occ ANLDBPROD_SQL stgp=bkplto6pool type=backup
Node Name Type Filespace FSID Storage Number of
We have TSM v6.3 running on an IBM x3650 M4 server with Windows 2008. The
server has a second un-used NIC.
If we configure and connect the second NIC, is it possible to make use of it so
that TSM network traffic (ie: backups) could be spread across the two NICs?
Thanks & Regards
Paul
Is there any point in backing up an Active Directory server using the TSM
client? Would a restore of Active Directory work? I have read conflicting views
on this - some say it would not work yet others say it has worked for them,
while others say that they use another tool to backup Active
How do you increase the resourcetimeout value in TSM 6.3? From the TSM
Administrative Command Line I have run the command "resourcetimeout 120"
however this fails with an unknown command error.
I have checked the dsmserv.opt file on the server but there is no mention of a
resourcetimeout
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 2017-10-31
23:07:56:
> From: Paul_Dudley <pdud...@anl.com.au>
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 2017-10-31 23:09
> Subject: Issue restoring SQL database via TDP Sent by: "ADSM: Dist
> Stor Manager&q
I was trying to restore an SQL database from one server (production) to another
server (test) and over the top of a database with a different name.
On the production server the database is called "InterfaceLoggingProduction".
On the test server the database I was trying to restore over the
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