Need info on Tivoli v Backup Exec
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Re: DB2 SQL2062N Reason code: 420
Hello Malbourgh, the server you have upgraded was TSM server or server where you have TSM client with DB2 database? Can you send the content of your dsm.sys (if you are using separate dsm.sys for ba and api send both of them)? I had the same problem and the solution was to use Passworddrir option in dsm.sys because my ba client was using the same password file as my api client (I used separate dsm.sys for ba and api and I had the same server name in both of them). By the way, what level is DB2? In older versions of DB2 was ADSM client included and it is recomended not to use this client but latest TSM api client. Check your paths to make sure you dont have mixed versions of TSM and ADSM api clients. Hope this helps Ing. Jozef Zatko Login a.s. Dlha 2, Stupava tel.: (421) (2) 60252618 Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16.01.2002 17:32 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:DB2 SQL2062N Reason code: 420 Good morning, SM*ers! I upgraded the AIX 4.3.3 server to TS 4.2.1.0 a couple of days ago and ever since that the DB2 client has been logging this message in the dsierror.log: SQL2062N An error occurred while accessing media /u/archive/sqllib/adsm/libadsm.a. Reason code: 420. I verified that the DSMI_CONFIG DIR was set correctly and the db2profile does NOT have these settings to over-rule. The permissions on the dsm.sys .opt files are usr/tivoli/tsm/client/api/binls -l dsm.sys -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1103 Nov 21 07:36 dsm.sys usr/tivoli/tsm/client/api/binls -l dsm.opt -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 882 Jun 12 2001 dsm.opt I have ran out of clues Please assist if you can! Thanks, Demetrius A. Malbrough UNIX/Tivoli Systems Admin
SAN's Open Discussion
Hi all, I've ever joined in some SAN's solution debate and also there are a lot of SAN's information available in any SAN's website. I would like to know the opinion from TSMer about how SAN's solution should be (also about NAS and what are the differences among them) so I can syncrhonize my understanding about it. Thankyou. # ./indra __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
Hi There is no problems running TSM on Windows depending on how many clients u are using and how much data your going to backup on a nightly basis. Normally, I would say that if you have more than 100 backupclients, or more than 500GB of incremental data each night, I would not suggest running Windows as backupserver. This is because AIX, Solaris and HP/UX has a lot higher I/O throughput than Windows servers. But, if you have less than 100 clients and/or less than 500GB of incremental data each night, there should be no problems backuping using Windows as the server platform. And, if you were to decide to use Windows, if you're clients grow, you can always cluster the TSM server, to balance the system. Normally, I try to have my clients run TSM on AIX. But this is always a question about investment costs and if there is any personel that can administer AIX. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 wptw63 wptw63@TELSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RA.COM cc: Sent by: Subject: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 2002-01-16 22:13 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager We are considering installing TSM server, and are being 'encouraged' to run it on AIX but are a little cold to the idea. We have more experience supporting Windows 2000. Does anyone have any feedback on the stability or performance of TSM server running on Windows? Feel free to mail directly if you have any information that you willing to share but are uncomfortable putting on the list. Thanks Powered by telstra.com
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
Hi, from what i learned by myself and from couple of tsm users in our area, the aix implementation is even more stable and scalable comparing to nt. TSM itself on nt is as stable as nt itself, if you are happy with nt you will likely be happy with tsm/nt as well. I am just setting-up new nt/tsm box, mainly because our know-how in unix is small. But if my requirements were harder I would swap to aix and buy aix know-how along with the product. For example, a neighbour company with x-terbytes of backup data and ATM backbone could double their tcp-ip throughput by swapping to aix, inspite of their perfect NT know how and weeks of tuning and comparable HW used for both NT and AIX. But I do not need that, so I stay with NT. regards Juraj -Original Message- From: wptw63 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? We are considering installing TSM server, and are being 'encouraged' to run it on AIX but are a little cold to the idea. We have more experience supporting Windows 2000. Does anyone have any feedback on the stability or performance of TSM server running on Windows? Feel free to mail directly if you have any information that you willing to share but are uncomfortable putting on the list. Thanks Powered by telstra.com
Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library
Well yes this could have happened had the tape belonged to the library. Actually the tape that was having problem did not belong to any storage pool and did not have any data in it (It was a scratch tape) as a result i did not have to run UPDATE/DELETE and MOVE VOLUME commands. I would suspect that this happened as this scratch tape was damaged. I was just not comfortable about the fact that the library manager was showing up a volume to be in library at X X XX location while it was outside and damaged in reality. Thank you again. Regards Mobeen -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library The inventory had to be an offline inventory probably to cover your scenario which is nasty. Like we said the CE did the wrong thing. An offline inventory should have put the tape in a status of missing (not FF00). However, your issue was in TSM all along. If you had marked the tape as unavailable in TSM with the UPDATE VOLume DELETE VOLume MOVE Data as appropriate you would have not had a problem with TSM. It depends on the state the volume is in at the time of the condition. However, if it bothers you that the tape would be in the library inventory as missing, then the way you did it is the only way to fix the problem. -Original Message- From: mobeenm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Thanks for the responses. I tried to do Patrial Inventory Update on the LM followed by Full Inventory Update on LM and it did not work. Then i inserted the damaged tape into recovery bin and put back the library to AUTO after the gripper completed the inventory check, i used the following mtlib command root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS02534 -s FF00 -t FF10 and the tape was ejected. The problem is now resolved. Thanks Mobeen -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 7:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library The Library Manager has a command option to inventory the library or a section of it. -Original Message- From: Bill Mansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Sorry, misunderstood. I don't think you can kick off an inventory from mtlib...I normally just pause the library and open and close one of the front doors. Low tech but effective. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc James healy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: ADSM: Dist Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 01/16/2002 12:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Bill, The command you gave me returns a current inventory of the Library. I'm looking for a command that will re-inventory the library. Thanks, Jim Bill Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/16/2002 12:15:18 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc James healy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: ADSM: Dist Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 01/16/2002 10:45 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Does anyone know how to initiate the Library inventory via the command line such as the Mtlib command? Gabriel Wiley [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/16/2002 10:04:43 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Inventory the Frame in which the tape resided in, if you know the home cell. To find the home cell go to the LM and query the DB for the volume in question. You should get a result like A 4 18 A = Frame 4 = Row 18 = Slot Run
Restore DB 4584Error-
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Restore DB 4584Error- Incomplete volume list
Hi TSM'rs Thank you everybody for the help. We make a DSMSERV RESTORE DB from tapes. (We found the right tapes!) The TSM start to work. 1)It choose the tape. 2)BEFORE the tape is inside we get 8337:Recovery log 3) The Tape is inside. 4) 4638I REstore Backup Series 129 5) 4583E Imcomplete volume list error. 6) The recovery stops. 7) The tape is ejected This occurs on EVERY DB-BACKUP (Full) that we have. TSM3.7.4 NT-Serv SP5 Thank you very much Michel MARNET __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
Re: Restore DB 4584Error- Incomplete volume list
Do you have enough scratch tapes? -Mensaje original- De: Michel David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: jueves 17 de enero de 2002 10:01 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Restore DB 4584Error- Incomplete volume list Hi TSM'rs Thank you everybody for the help. We make a DSMSERV RESTORE DB from tapes. (We found the right tapes!) The TSM start to work. 1)It choose the tape. 2)BEFORE the tape is inside we get 8337:Recovery log 3) The Tape is inside. 4) 4638I REstore Backup Series 129 5) 4583E Imcomplete volume list error. 6) The recovery stops. 7) The tape is ejected This occurs on EVERY DB-BACKUP (Full) that we have. TSM3.7.4 NT-Serv SP5 Thank you very much Michel MARNET __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Este mensaje de correo electrónico y sus documentos adjuntos están dirigidos EXCLUSIVAMENTE a los destinatarios especificados. La información contenida puede ser CONFIDENCIAL y/o estar LEGALMENTE PROTEGIDA y no necesariamente refleja la opinión de ENDESA. Si usted recibe este mensaje por ERROR, por favor comuníqueselo inmediatamente al remitente y ELIMÍNELO ya que usted NO ESTA AUTORIZADO al uso, revelación, distribución, impresión o copia de toda o alguna parte de la información contenida. Gracias. This e-mail message and any attached files are intended SOLELY for the addressee/s identified herein. It may contain CONFIDENTIAL and/or LEGALLY PRIVILEGED information and may not necessarily represent the opinion of ENDESA. If you receive this message in ERROR, please immediately notify the sender and DELETE it since you ARE NOT AUTHORIZED to use, disclose, distribute, print or copy all or part of the contained information. Thank you.
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
I do on Win2K Box : More than 650 Completed backup Win9x, NT, 2K Clients backup / days More than 80 NT/ 20 Unix Completed Backup / days 10 Exchange Servers Volume by day 100-300 GB It works fine used less than 50% CPU at maximum. Server : HP LXr8500 8x PIII 700 2MB, 4GB Ram, 24x18GB Ultra3 Raid 5 Disk, 1Gb/s NetCard. Library : STKL700, 6xLTO Ultrium. The main advantage of Win2K Platfom is the cost of the Hardware comparing to SUN or AIX box. Salutations / Best Regards gGE Medical Systems ___ Eric Boireau Global Systems Server Architect / Technology Infrastructure Team GE Medical Systems S.A 283, rue de la Minière 78533 BUC Cedex France Tél: (33) 1 30 70 39 32, DC: 8*644 3932 Fax: (33) 1 30 70 42 30, DC: 8*644 3930 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Hi, from what i learned by myself and from couple of tsm users in our area, the aix implementation is even more stable and scalable comparing to nt. TSM itself on nt is as stable as nt itself, if you are happy with nt you will likely be happy with tsm/nt as well. I am just setting-up new nt/tsm box, mainly because our know-how in unix is small. But if my requirements were harder I would swap to aix and buy aix know-how along with the product. For example, a neighbour company with x-terbytes of backup data and ATM backbone could double their tcp-ip throughput by swapping to aix, inspite of their perfect NT know how and weeks of tuning and comparable HW used for both NT and AIX. But I do not need that, so I stay with NT. regards Juraj -Original Message- From: wptw63 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? We are considering installing TSM server, and are being 'encouraged' to run it on AIX but are a little cold to the idea. We have more experience supporting Windows 2000. Does anyone have any feedback on the stability or performance of TSM server running on Windows? Feel free to mail directly if you have any information that you willing to share but are uncomfortable putting on the list. Thanks Powered by telstra.com
Problem with HSM on AIX
Hello, last week we had an unscheduled power interuption. Since then we have a problem with HSM. The client is at level 3.1.20.7, the server is TSM 4.1.2. When doing a reconciliation we get the following error messages in dsmerror.log: 01/17/02 10:29:01 DoReconcile: ReconFileSpace failed /hsm, rc: 102 01/17/02 10:29:02 ANS9082W dsmreconcile: error encountered while reconciling file system /hsm. I can't find any further information. Could anybody tell me what this means? A further question: Is there anything I could do like a fsck? Best regards Gerhard Gerhard Rentschler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager Central Servers Services Regional Computing Center tel: ++49/711/6855806 University of Stuttgartfax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany
Re: AIX , TSM and Onbar
Jason, If you go to http://www.geocities.com/maury.geo/onbar.html you should find all the information you need to correctly configure TSM to work with onbar. One idea that springs to mind is to ensure your sysutils database is set-up correctly so that onbar knows what storage manager it's looking for in the first place. The easiest way to do that is to put the information in to your sm_versions file but if I remember correctly this requires the database instance to be reinitialised (oninit -i). If you can't reinitialise then update the sysutils database directly. I believe that bsashr10.o is part of TDP for Informix. You can try the following command to add bsashr10.o to the ibsad001.a library. If you do, it is at your own risk: ar -q /usr/lib/ibsad001.a bsashr10.o Regards, Danny Williams Systems Management Specialist IBM Global Services - Integrated Technology Services Date:Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:21:10 + From:Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AIX , TSM and Onbar I currently have the following error when invoking the OnBar utility. exec():0509 - 036 Cannot load program onbar because of the following errors: 0509-150 Dependant module /usr/lib/ibsad001.a ( bsashr10.o ) could not be loaded 0509 - 152 Member bsashr10.o is not found in archive. I have installed the API on the new server and set up links etc. Current environment. TSM 4.1.0 with API Loaded. Informix 7.24.UC5 - Newly built ADSM Server. AIX 4.2.1 ADSM 3.1.2.20 with API Loaded. As above. - Original Server. AIX 4.3.3 I have tried the ar -x on the library mentioned in the install notes. And indeed bsashr10.o could not be found in the archive. Would anyone be able to confirm the following:- Under ADSM 3.1 did the API contain bsashr10.o ? Was there a For TSM 4.1 , do I need to install Tivoli Data Protection for Informix ? Is bsashr10.o contained in TDP for Informix ? Can you run Onbar without TDP for Informix under TSM 4.1 ? Any help would be appreciated Regards Jason
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
The cost of an HP LXr8500 with the configuration descripted shouldn't be much lower than a UNIX box with comparable performance. For example and IBM P-Series 610 with PowerPC processors running at 450Mhz would require 2 processor card to be comparable to and 8-way HP intel machine. So, please don't say that a UNIX box is MUCH more expensive. What you have done is to maximize an intel machine. If you were to maximize and UNIX box, it could probably handle as least 10 times the amount of clients. And, then it would be much more expensive. But that isn't what we're talking about. We have a single processor machine running 180 servers, with about 500-600GB of incremental data each night. This machine is half asleep when running backups. Thats the difference in performance. Everybody knows, that if you put an intel machine against a UNIX machine and compare I/O performance, the UNIX machine will outrun the intel box without any problems. And, almost all work that a TSM servers is doing, is related to I/O (disk transactions, db transactions, migration and so on...). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Boireau, Eric (MED) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eric.boireau@Mcc: ED.GE.COM Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU 2002-01-17 10:54 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager I do on Win2K Box : More than 650 Completed backup Win9x, NT, 2K Clients backup / days More than 80 NT/ 20 Unix Completed Backup / days 10 Exchange Servers Volume by day 100-300 GB It works fine used less than 50% CPU at maximum. Server : HP LXr8500 8x PIII 700 2MB, 4GB Ram, 24x18GB Ultra3 Raid 5 Disk, 1Gb/s NetCard. Library : STKL700, 6xLTO Ultrium. The main advantage of Win2K Platfom is the cost of the Hardware comparing to SUN or AIX box. Salutations / Best Regards gGE Medical Systems ___ Eric Boireau Global Systems Server Architect / Technology Infrastructure Team GE Medical Systems S.A 283, rue de la Minière 78533 BUC Cedex France Tél: (33) 1 30 70 39 32, DC: 8*644 3932 Fax: (33) 1 30 70 42 30, DC: 8*644 3930 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Hi, from what i learned by myself and from couple of tsm users in our area, the aix implementation is even more stable and scalable comparing to nt. TSM itself on nt is as stable as nt itself, if you are happy with nt you will likely be happy with tsm/nt as well. I am just setting-up new nt/tsm box, mainly because our know-how in unix is small. But if my requirements were harder I would swap to aix and buy aix know-how along with
Re: Tape Reclamation
I guess your reclaiming tapes from an offsite pool. Do you run a select statement first? Query which tapes you'll need to reclaim from a certain percentage of reclaimable space. something like... select volume_name from volumes where stgpool_name='POOLNAME' and pct_reclaim=60 then check all the tapes into the library once onsite and kick off reclaim on that stgpool. Marc. Karen Mikacenic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16-Jan-2002 19:17 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L cc: Subject:Tape Reclamation When a tape reclamation starts for tape 25, the volume is mounted into the drive, but ADSM also requests the mounting of tape 20 which is not in the library (manually marked unavailable). It is extremely difficult to reclaim tapes without knowing what tapes are associated to each other. I think this is happening when a file is written across tapes. Is there a easy way to know what tapes are needed to reclaim one tape? I would prefer if there was not a spanning/association across tapes so that when tape 25 was reclaimable, it could be reclaimed without requiring tape 20. A lot of tapes do not get reclaimed because of this. Does everyone have this problem or is it something peculiar to me. I run ADSM Server for Windows NT Version 3 Release 1 Level 2.30 on NT 4.0 SP4. Here is the activity log: 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR0984I Process 814 for SPACE RECLAMATION started in the BACKGROUND at 05:00:26. 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 25, storage pool BKTAPPOOL (process number 814). 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR1044I Removable volume 20 is required for space reclamation. 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR1044I Removable volume 25 is required for space reclamation. 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR8324I DLT volume 20 is expected to be mounted (R/O). 01/16/2002 05:00:26 ANR8324I DLT volume 25 is expected to be mounted (R/O). 01/16/2002 07:55:22 ANR1420W Read access denied for volume 20 - volume access mode = unavailable. 01/16/2002 07:55:22 ANR0986I Process 814 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND processed 44399 items for a total of 18,477,974,075 bytes with a completion state of FAILURE at 07:55:22. 01/16/2002 07:55:22 ANR1081W Space reclamation terminated for volume 25 - storage media inaccessible. The tapes look like this: Volume Name 25 Storage Pool Name BKTAPPOOL Device Class Name DLT7000 Estimated Capacity (MB) 106160.8 Pct Util 22.2 Volume Status FULL Access READWRITE Pct. Reclaimable Space 78.0 Scratch Volume? Yes In Error State? No Approx. Date Last Written 2002-01-08 21:43:28.00 Approx. Date Last Read 2002-01-16 07:00:54.00 Last Update Date/Time2002-01-07 21:24:10.00 Volume Name 20 Storage Pool Name BKTAPPOOL Device Class Name DLT7000 Estimated Capacity (MB) 76014.9 Pct Util 97.5 Volume Status FULL Access UNAVAILABLE Pct. Reclaimable Space 2.4 Scratch Volume? Yes In Error State? No Number of Writable Sides 1 Number of Times Mounted 9 Write Pass Number 1 Approx. Date Last Written 2002-01-08 05:32:02.00 Approx. Date Last Read 2002-01-07 12:52:12.00 I would appreciate any suggestions. Thank you Karen Mikacenic -TSG 425 945 5137 425 562 5257 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unigard Insurance 15805 NE 24th St. Bellevue, WA 98008
Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library
There is a whole system of software that will let you manage an ATL from a remote PC just as if you were at the console of the library (I can't remember the name of it right off). A two part piece, one part goes on the ATL and another goes on a remote PC. We had it to manage ATL's utilized by large MVS environments for VTS but never bothered to put it on any of the ATL's connected to Unix servers for use with TSM. I never could justify the cost and now and again it was/is nice to roam out to our off-site location to dork with the atl's. Now you might be able to simply play around with the OS (enable inbound telnet sessions) and find some OS/2 command line interface to the atl but I've used these things for 6 years now and I haven't found an easy way to do anything remotely other than what mtlib offers. Dwight -Original Message- From: James healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Bill, The command you gave me returns a current inventory of the Library. I'm looking for a command that will re-inventory the library. Thanks, Jim Bill Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/16/2002 12:15:18 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library mtlib -l /dev/lmcp0 -qI _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc James healy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: cc: ADSM: Dist Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 01/16/2002 10:45 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Does anyone know how to initiate the Library inventory via the command line such as the Mtlib command? Gabriel Wiley [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/16/2002 10:04:43 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Inventory the Frame in which the tape resided in, if you know the home cell. To find the home cell go to the LM and query the DB for the volume in question. You should get a result like A 4 18 A = Frame 4 = Row 18 = Slot Run partial Inventory (Frame Specific) Run Full Inventory (Whole Library) Good Luck! Gabriel C. Wiley ADSM/TSM Administrator AIX Support Phone 1-614-308-6709 Pager 1-877-489-2867 Fax 1-614-308-6637 Cell 1-740-972-6441 Siempre Hay Esperanza mobeenm [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/15/2002 10:33:42 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Ejecting a Tape (Category FF00) from 3494 Library Hello All, I am running a 3494 Library with 3590 E1A tape drives. Recently i has an issue with the tape drive and the IBM CE who came on site physically removed a damaged volume from the library, how ever he doesn't know how to get this tape removed from the Inventory as he thinks thats a seperate issue. Now the following are the details of my problem 1. The tape S0 was deemed damaged by the IBM CE and was physically removed from the tape library. So there is no S0 in the library. 2. When i use mtlib command and query for this volume the following are the details root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -q V -VS0 Volume Data: volume state.Volume present in Library, but Inaccessible logical volume...No volume class.3590 1/2 inch cartridge tape volume type..HPCT 320m nominal length volser...S0 category.FF00 subsystem affinity...01 02 03 04 05 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3. I tried to change the CATEGORY for this volume from FF00 to FF10, FFFA and FFFB and failed. The following are the details root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS0 -s FF00 -t FF10 Change Category operation Failed, ERPA code - 75, Library VOLSER Inaccessible. root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS0 -s FF00 -t FFFA Change Category operation Failed, ERPA code - 27, Command Reject. Subcode - 23, root:#mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -C -VS0 -s FF00 -t FFFB Change Category operation Failed, ERPA
Re: DB2 SQL2062N Reason code: 420
Thanks Jozef, but it is fixed now! There was an incorrect option in the dsm.sys file that it was trying to read. -Original Message- From: Jozef Zatko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DB2 SQL2062N Reason code: 420 Hello Malbourgh, the server you have upgraded was TSM server or server where you have TSM client with DB2 database? Can you send the content of your dsm.sys (if you are using separate dsm.sys for ba and api send both of them)? I had the same problem and the solution was to use Passworddrir option in dsm.sys because my ba client was using the same password file as my api client (I used separate dsm.sys for ba and api and I had the same server name in both of them). By the way, what level is DB2? In older versions of DB2 was ADSM client included and it is recomended not to use this client but latest TSM api client. Check your paths to make sure you dont have mixed versions of TSM and ADSM api clients. Hope this helps Ing. Jozef Zatko Login a.s. Dlha 2, Stupava tel.: (421) (2) 60252618 Malbrough, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16.01.2002 17:32 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:DB2 SQL2062N Reason code: 420 Good morning, SM*ers! I upgraded the AIX 4.3.3 server to TS 4.2.1.0 a couple of days ago and ever since that the DB2 client has been logging this message in the dsierror.log: SQL2062N An error occurred while accessing media /u/archive/sqllib/adsm/libadsm.a. Reason code: 420. I verified that the DSMI_CONFIG DIR was set correctly and the db2profile does NOT have these settings to over-rule. The permissions on the dsm.sys .opt files are usr/tivoli/tsm/client/api/binls -l dsm.sys -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 1103 Nov 21 07:36 dsm.sys usr/tivoli/tsm/client/api/binls -l dsm.opt -rw-r--r-- 1 root system 882 Jun 12 2001 dsm.opt I have ran out of clues Please assist if you can! Thanks, Demetrius A. Malbrough UNIX/Tivoli Systems Admin
w2k SAN managed client namedpipe
Dear Listers, I am trying to improve my backup and restorespeed via SAN. Currently I am using LANFREECOMMMETHOD TCPIP. I would like to use LANFREECOMMMETHOD NAMEDPIPE But I do not know de namedpipe name of the storageagent ? Can Anybody tell me te namedpipe name of the storageagent ? THNX 4 YUR TIME, Koen Willems Touch The Progress servicesGet your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com.
Re: Changing Retention
Paul, Thanks for the suggestion. I am new to ADSM. I am an Oracle DBA. Trying to understand some of these things with ADSM. I will talk to our SAs about this and see if it feasible. I do not know what Oracle TDP is. So I do not know if we are using it or not. But my wild guess is : not (else someone would have informed the Oracle DBAs). Regards, - Kirti -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing Retention You can rebind the files to a new management class with the new retention and I think this will take care of you, but I have not read up on this. I presume you are not using the Oracle TDP. -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing Retention Hi, Is there any way to change retention for already archived set of files? We have archived a number of files for an Oracle database with the default setting for the Management Class (4week retention). The need is to make sure this set is preserved beyond the 4week retention time. Thanks. - Kirti
Re: What qualifies as an in use license?
Yes, now you've got the spirit of the thing. There are all kinds of special cases when you get into high performance or clustered systems, and short of an authoritative answer from Tivoli, you just have to interpret the rules as best you can, and document your reasoning in case anybody ever asks. In the case of an SP at least, the letter refers to frame, which is a well-defined SP term, so in a hypothetical three frame SP environment, you would probably need three licenses. How this translates to other multicomputer aggregations (Sun E15K, HP SuperDome) I don't know. I'm pretty sure that a plain old rack of servers requires one license per. Good question on clusters. From the TSM server point of view, only one of the cluster nodes will be sending data across the SAN, so a strict reading of the letter would imply that only one MGSYSSAN license is required, but your guess is as good as mine here. Wanda got it right in her note yesterday. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Zlatko Krastev/ACIT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] acit@ATTGLOBA cc: L.NET Subject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 01/16/2002 06:43 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Bill, thank you for pointing me this. Usualy the main difference between USA and EMEA announcement letters is the number and I easily found the section you pointed in EMEA Letter ZP00-0350. So I was wrong and admit it. However there is no strict definition of the terms managed system and managing system. If this is the box, not the OS image what happens in the following scenarios: - SP with more than one frame - several servers running PSSP, PE, Parallel ESSL, GPFS, LoadLeveler either in separate boxes or in a single rack but w/o SP switch and not ordered as SP system - several rack-mounted servers in single rack being or not part of a cluster - HP HyperPlex system In the first scenario is each frame counting as separate managed system or not. In latter case if we have imaginary SP with three frames with 8 dual-processor Wide Nodes each should we consider this Tier 2 system because number of processors in the frame is 16 !?! In the second scenario we are having switchless SP system of RS/6000 servers (or pSeries). But if not ordered as SP this may mean that 4 dual-processor B80s or pSeries 610 for total of 8 processors will need four times more Tivoli MP compared to the 48-processor SP in the above example. And on the end several servers in a single rack - what if they are separate OS images with different application services, if they are in a cluster running same application (Parallel Oracle, partitioned DB2, round-robin web servers, etc.) or if it is single OS image and application instance as in HP HyperPlex (I have no experience with HyperPlex. AFAIK with it up to four servers are interconnected to form signle large server running one OS image - something like predecessor
Re: Restore DB 4584Error- Incomplete volume list
Scratch Tapes ? 1)I have 2)It doesn't know yet, who is who. Restore falls at the begining of reading the tape. 3)What's the connection ? Thank you. Michel MARNET Do you have enough scratch tapes? -Mensaje original- De: Michel David [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: jueves 17 de enero de 2002 10:01 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Restore DB 4584Error- Incomplete volume list Hi TSM'rs Thank you everybody for the help. We make a DSMSERV RESTORE DB from tapes. (We found the right tapes!) The TSM start to work. 1)It choose the tape. 2)BEFORE the tape is inside we get 8337:Recovery log 3) The Tape is inside. 4) 4638I REstore Backup Series 129 5) 4583E Imcomplete volume list error. 6) The recovery stops. 7) The tape is ejected This occurs on EVERY DB-BACKUP (Full) that we have. TSM3.7.4 NT-Serv SP5 Thank you very much Michel MARNET __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ Este mensaje de correo electrsnico y sus documentos adjuntos estan dirigidos EXCLUSIVAMENTE a los destinatarios especificados. La informacisn contenida puede ser CONFIDENCIAL y/o estar LEGALMENTE PROTEGIDA y no necesariamente refleja la opinisn de ENDESA. Si usted recibe este mensaje por ERROR, por favor comunmqueselo inmediatamente al remitente y ELIMMNELO ya que usted NO ESTA AUTORIZADO al uso, revelacisn, distribucisn, impresisn o copia de toda o alguna parte de la informacisn contenida. Gracias. This e-mail message and any attached files are intended SOLELY for the addressee/s identified herein. It may contain CONFIDENTIAL and/or LEGALLY PRIVILEGED information and may not necessarily represent the opinion of ENDESA. If you receive this message in ERROR, please immediately notify the sender and DELETE it since you ARE NOT AUTHORIZED to use, disclose, distribute, print or copy all or part of the contained information. Thank you. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
TDP backups on large disk arrays
Anyone noticed poorer performance on TDP/ADSM backups running on Windows NT servers with increasing disk/array sizes? We run Domino backups with TDP v1.1 on TSM 4.1.2 Marc.
Re: What qualifies as an in use license?
HP Superdome requires a tier 3 license. This is calculated based on processor, and system type. A tier 3 managed license is not a cheap license. So for special occasions the price goes up. When registering two nodes on the same machine, and then accessing the TSM server with both nodes, you have 2 managed systems for LAN in use. This should mean that it's not the physical machine that is a managed system, but rather each registred node that is accessing the server. For clustered Windows NT/2000 machines, you need 3 licenses if the cluster contains two clusternodes; one for each local system, and one for the virtual cluster system. This is also an exampel of how licensing works; it's not the physical machine, rather the nodename that is accessing the server. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Bill Mansfield WMansfield@SOLUTIONTECHNTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OLOGY.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Dist StorSubject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-01-17 15:14 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Yes, now you've got the spirit of the thing. There are all kinds of special cases when you get into high performance or clustered systems, and short of an authoritative answer from Tivoli, you just have to interpret the rules as best you can, and document your reasoning in case anybody ever asks. In the case of an SP at least, the letter refers to frame, which is a well-defined SP term, so in a hypothetical three frame SP environment, you would probably need three licenses. How this translates to other multicomputer aggregations (Sun E15K, HP SuperDome) I don't know. I'm pretty sure that a plain old rack of servers requires one license per. Good question on clusters. From the TSM server point of view, only one of the cluster nodes will be sending data across the SAN, so a strict reading of the letter would imply that only one MGSYSSAN license is required, but your guess is as good as mine here. Wanda got it right in her note yesterday. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Zlatko Krastev/ACIT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] acit@ATTGLOBA cc: L.NET Subject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 01/16/2002 06:43 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Bill, thank you for pointing me this. Usualy the main difference between USA and EMEA announcement letters is the number and I easily found the section you pointed in EMEA Letter ZP00-0350. So I was wrong and admit it. However there is no strict definition of the terms managed system and managing system. If this is the box, not the OS image what happens in the following scenarios: - SP with more than one frame - several servers running PSSP, PE, Parallel ESSL, GPFS, LoadLeveler either in separate boxes or in a single rack but w/o SP switch and not ordered as SP system - several rack-mounted servers in single
Re: What qualifies as an in use license?
Last year I went through a pricing exercise at another customer of mine. In the end the cost of the licenses were worked out on a point basis supplied by our Tivoli Salesman. Basically, we ended up putting categorising each client based on the type of Platform. i.e. Large Systems, UNIX Boxes (Inc SP Nodes), NT Clusters, PC's etc. With each of these each points were then awarded against the number of processors. Ask your Tivoli Salesman for a list of the categories and start awarding those points. However, dont forget to negotiate a price against those points. Of course this may have changed since last year?! Regards, Jason Barkes (Mustard Design Consultants Ltd) http://www.mustard-design.co.uk -Original Message- From: Bill Mansfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Yes, now you've got the spirit of the thing. There are all kinds of special cases when you get into high performance or clustered systems, and short of an authoritative answer from Tivoli, you just have to interpret the rules as best you can, and document your reasoning in case anybody ever asks. In the case of an SP at least, the letter refers to frame, which is a well-defined SP term, so in a hypothetical three frame SP environment, you would probably need three licenses. How this translates to other multicomputer aggregations (Sun E15K, HP SuperDome) I don't know. I'm pretty sure that a plain old rack of servers requires one license per. Good question on clusters. From the TSM server point of view, only one of the cluster nodes will be sending data across the SAN, so a strict reading of the letter would imply that only one MGSYSSAN license is required, but your guess is as good as mine here. Wanda got it right in her note yesterday. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Zlatko Krastev/ACIT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] acit@ATTGLOBA cc: L.NET Subject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] IST.EDU 01/16/2002 06:43 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Bill, thank you for pointing me this. Usualy the main difference between USA and EMEA announcement letters is the number and I easily found the section you pointed in EMEA Letter ZP00-0350. So I was wrong and admit it. However there is no strict definition of the terms managed system and managing system. If this is the box, not the OS image what happens in the following scenarios: - SP with more than one frame - several servers running PSSP, PE, Parallel ESSL, GPFS, LoadLeveler either in separate boxes or in a single rack but w/o SP switch and not ordered as SP system - several rack-mounted servers in single rack being or not part of a cluster - HP HyperPlex system In the first scenario is each frame counting as separate managed system or not. In latter case if we have imaginary SP with three frames with 8 dual-processor Wide Nodes each should we consider this Tier 2 system because number of processors in the frame is 16 !?! In the second scenario we are having switchless SP system of RS/6000 servers (or pSeries). But if not ordered as SP this may mean that 4 dual-processor B80s or pSeries 610 for total of 8 processors will need four times more Tivoli MP compared to the 48-processor SP in the above example. And on the end several servers in a single rack - what if they are separate OS images with different application services, if they are in a cluster running same application (Parallel Oracle, partitioned DB2, round-robin web servers, etc.) or if it is single OS image and application instance as in HP HyperPlex (I have no experience with HyperPlex. AFAIK with it up to four servers are interconnected to form signle large server running one OS image - something like predecessor of SuperDome. But I may read this wrong also so comments are welcome direct mail or through list). Another issue with SP is if we treat it as single system - does this mean we can start TSM servers on more than one node. And how many library sharing licenses would be necessary in this case - one for each node, only one for the whole SP or nothing. The explained usage of both TSM server and MgSysSAN maybe is for TSM server on a SP node and another node performing activities LAN-free. But what if third node also is SAN-attached for backup and on fourth node we run a test TSM server? Are points for one Tier 2/3 server and *one* MgSysSAN T2/3 enough? In the light of this information a load-balancing cluster cleraly needs
Re: How to delete a library that has been disconnected
Did you specify REMOVE=NO on the CHECKOUT LIBV? -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 6:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to delete a library that has been disconnected Think in terms of a disaster has occurred and all the tapes are gone. I think Update Vol will do the trick with the right parameters. Then you will be able to can the library. -Original Message- From: Aldrich, Jamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to delete a library that has been disconnected We use to have an ACSLS library attached to our server, but it was removed at some point before I took over duties. Now, we still have the library and libvolumes defined on the server, but I cannot get either to go away. I tried to checkout libvol, and the command hangs. I cannot delete the library since it still has libvolumes in use. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Jamie S. Aldrich Verizon Information Services Phone: (972) 453-7598 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What qualifies as an in use license?
Hi Bill When I received your mail, I contacted Tivoli. According to them, each registred nodename on the TSM server is a managed system. There is NO special situations where you can register more licenses than you have purchased. If it is so, how do you controll how many licenses you have to buy? Hopefully, you don't have to many servers registred like this. And also, according to Tivoli, the number of licenses you have to buy, is the number that is stated using q lic, not how many hardware systems you have. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman PS My contact is Adam Czulinski at Tivoli Sweden. He's a large account presale. --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
If I had a choice between unix and nt I would choose nt every time. It's much easier to use and the much ballyhooed performance gained by using unix is not that great. Mark -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? The cost of an HP LXr8500 with the configuration descripted shouldn't be much lower than a UNIX box with comparable performance. For example and IBM P-Series 610 with PowerPC processors running at 450Mhz would require 2 processor card to be comparable to and 8-way HP intel machine. So, please don't say that a UNIX box is MUCH more expensive. What you have done is to maximize an intel machine. If you were to maximize and UNIX box, it could probably handle as least 10 times the amount of clients. And, then it would be much more expensive. But that isn't what we're talking about. We have a single processor machine running 180 servers, with about 500-600GB of incremental data each night. This machine is half asleep when running backups. Thats the difference in performance. Everybody knows, that if you put an intel machine against a UNIX machine and compare I/O performance, the UNIX machine will outrun the intel box without any problems. And, almost all work that a TSM servers is doing, is related to I/O (disk transactions, db transactions, migration and so on...). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Boireau, Eric (MED) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eric.boireau@Mcc: ED.GE.COM Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU 2002-01-17 10:54 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager I do on Win2K Box : More than 650 Completed backup Win9x, NT, 2K Clients backup / days More than 80 NT/ 20 Unix Completed Backup / days 10 Exchange Servers Volume by day 100-300 GB It works fine used less than 50% CPU at maximum. Server : HP LXr8500 8x PIII 700 2MB, 4GB Ram, 24x18GB Ultra3 Raid 5 Disk, 1Gb/s NetCard. Library : STKL700, 6xLTO Ultrium. The main advantage of Win2K Platfom is the cost of the Hardware comparing to SUN or AIX box. Salutations / Best Regards gGE Medical Systems ___ Eric Boireau Global Systems Server Architect / Technology Infrastructure Team GE Medical Systems S.A 283, rue de la Minière 78533 BUC Cedex France Tél: (33) 1 30 70 39 32, DC: 8*644 3932 Fax: (33) 1 30 70 42 30, DC: 8*644 3930 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Hi, from what i learned by myself and from couple of tsm users in our area, the aix implementation is even more stable and scalable comparing to nt. TSM itself on nt is as stable as nt itself, if you are happy with nt you will likely be happy with tsm/nt as well. I am just setting-up new nt/tsm box, mainly because our know-how in unix is small. But if my requirements were harder I would swap to aix and buy aix know-how along with the product. For example, a neighbour company with x-terbytes of backup data and ATM backbone could double their tcp-ip throughput by swapping to aix, inspite of their perfect NT know how and weeks of tuning and comparable HW used for both NT and AIX. But I do not need that, so I stay with NT. regards Juraj -Original Message- From: wptw63 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? We are considering installing TSM server, and are being 'encouraged' to run it on AIX but are a little cold to the idea. We have more experience supporting Windows 2000. Does anyone have any feedback on the stability or performance of TSM server running on Windows? Feel free to mail directly if you have any information that you willing to share but are uncomfortable putting on the list. Thanks Powered by telstra.com Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
Normally, this opinion is because you don't have any experience using UNIX. If you we're a unix specialist, what would you prefer? NT or UNIX? The performance gain using UNIX vs NT is not that high when using a small amount of clients. However, using a large amount of clients, over 100, gains a lot of performance. At the customer I earlier described, we had to use an NT server temporary, because there was a slight delay in the delivery of the UNIX machine. The NT machine could backup machines in the morning, while users were working. If I were to backup a 100 clients in morning using the UNIX machine, everything else would stop, because the UNIX machine has a lot higher throughput. The customer had a T/R bridge, and when we started backing up with the UNIX machine, we got the comment from the network guy that the bridge had never been so highly utilized. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman PS This question has been on the ADSM.ORG list before. Which operating system you choose to use is normally based on what knowledge you have. --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Remeta, Mark MRemeta@SELIGMATo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NDATA.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 2002-01-17 17:23 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager If I had a choice between unix and nt I would choose nt every time. It's much easier to use and the much ballyhooed performance gained by using unix is not that great. Mark -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? The cost of an HP LXr8500 with the configuration descripted shouldn't be much lower than a UNIX box with comparable performance. For example and IBM P-Series 610 with PowerPC processors running at 450Mhz would require 2 processor card to be comparable to and 8-way HP intel machine. So, please don't say that a UNIX box is MUCH more expensive. What you have done is to maximize an intel machine. If you were to maximize and UNIX box, it could probably handle as least 10 times the amount of clients. And, then it would be much more expensive. But that isn't what we're talking about. We have a single processor machine running 180 servers, with about 500-600GB of incremental data each night. This machine is half asleep when running backups. Thats the difference in performance. Everybody knows, that if you put an intel machine against a UNIX machine and compare I/O performance, the UNIX machine will outrun the intel box without any problems. And, almost all work that a TSM servers is doing, is related to I/O (disk transactions, db transactions, migration and so on...). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Boireau, Eric (MED) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What qualifies as an in use license?
I also contacted Tivoli, and got the answer (in writing) that you register each machine, regardless of how many nodes there are registered to TSM for the machine. Guess it depends on who at Tivoli you ask (or, perhaps, what country you live in). It's surprising that no one at Tivoli has weighed in on this discussion with an official pronouncement... _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Daniel Sparrman daniel.sparrman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @EXIST.SE cc: Sent by: ADSM:Subject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 01/17/2002 09:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi Bill When I received your mail, I contacted Tivoli. According to them, each registred nodename on the TSM server is a managed system. There is NO special situations where you can register more licenses than you have purchased. If it is so, how do you controll how many licenses you have to buy? Hopefully, you don't have to many servers registred like this. And also, according to Tivoli, the number of licenses you have to buy, is the number that is stated using q lic, not how many hardware systems you have. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman PS My contact is Adam Czulinski at Tivoli Sweden. He's a large account presale. --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Software/Hardware compression?
Hi All, I know in other products that you can not run software compression and hardware compression concurrently. I have been told that it results in the files reverting to an almost uncompressed state. What I need is to know if the same applies to TSM. My company are thinking of purchasing TSM so if anyone knows of an official statement from IBM/Tivoli that I can be referred to that would be appreciated. The software platform will be Solaris and the autochanger is an STK L700 with 9840 fibre drives TSM 4.2.1.7. Jason Stoessler Guardian iT
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
Depends on your technical background. Tivoli has built better wizards into the NT version, but us crusty Unix guys still have problems making a Windows installation go. I know I have a lot more trouble configuring tape libraries on 2000 than I do on AIX. _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Remeta, Mark MRemeta@SELIGMA To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NDATA.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM:Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 01/17/2002 10:23 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager If I had a choice between unix and nt I would choose nt every time. It's much easier to use and the much ballyhooed performance gained by using unix is not that great. Mark -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? The cost of an HP LXr8500 with the configuration descripted shouldn't be much lower than a UNIX box with comparable performance. For example and IBM P-Series 610 with PowerPC processors running at 450Mhz would require 2 processor card to be comparable to and 8-way HP intel machine. So, please don't say that a UNIX box is MUCH more expensive. What you have done is to maximize an intel machine. If you were to maximize and UNIX box, it could probably handle as least 10 times the amount of clients. And, then it would be much more expensive. But that isn't what we're talking about. We have a single processor machine running 180 servers, with about 500-600GB of incremental data each night. This machine is half asleep when running backups. Thats the difference in performance. Everybody knows, that if you put an intel machine against a UNIX machine and compare I/O performance, the UNIX machine will outrun the intel box without any problems. And, almost all work that a TSM servers is doing, is related to I/O (disk transactions, db transactions, migration and so on...). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Boireau, Eric (MED) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eric.boireau@Mcc: ED.GE.COM Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU 2002-01-17 10:54 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager I do on Win2K Box : More than 650 Completed backup Win9x, NT, 2K Clients backup / days More than 80 NT/ 20 Unix Completed Backup / days 10 Exchange Servers Volume by day 100-300 GB It works fine used less than 50% CPU at maximum. Server : HP LXr8500 8x PIII
Netware 5.1 4.2.1 Client
Has anybody seen these errors backing up an NDS tree? 01/17/2002 11:35:28 ANS1870E NDS transport failure FFFDFEAF has occurred. Please contact Novell to resolve it. 01/17/2002 11:35:29 ANS1228E Sending of object '.[Root].O=SBHD.OU=ZEN_APPLICATIONS.CN=Wincmd32_403' failed 01/17/2002 11:35:29 Skip current operation Report how you got this Thanks, Bruce Kamp Network Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System P: (954)987-2020 x6008 F: (954)985-2274 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What qualifies as an in use license?
Perhaps because they themselfs are unsure on how the licensing is set up. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Bill Mansfield WMansfield@SOLUTIONTECHNTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OLOGY.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Dist StorSubject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-01-17 17:32 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager I also contacted Tivoli, and got the answer (in writing) that you register each machine, regardless of how many nodes there are registered to TSM for the machine. Guess it depends on who at Tivoli you ask (or, perhaps, what country you live in). It's surprising that no one at Tivoli has weighed in on this discussion with an official pronouncement... _ William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Daniel Sparrman daniel.sparrman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @EXIST.SE cc: Sent by: ADSM:Subject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 01/17/2002 09:52 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi Bill When I received your mail, I contacted Tivoli. According to them, each registred nodename on the TSM server is a managed system. There is NO special situations where you can register more licenses than you have purchased. If it is so, how do you controll how many licenses you have to buy? Hopefully, you don't have to many servers registred like this. And also, according to Tivoli, the number of licenses you have to buy, is the number that is stated using q lic, not how many hardware systems you have. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman PS My contact is Adam Czulinski at Tivoli Sweden. He's a large account presale. --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51
Re: Changing Retention
Thanks for the information. All we have are home grown scripts invoking 'dsmc' command to 'archive' database files. We do not use 'backup' for these files. The solution we have come to is to 'retrieve' the files and perform another 'archive' with new Management Class having desired retention period. Thanks. - Kirti -Original Message- From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing Retention Hi, Oracle TDP is Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle, which is the Oracle backup agent, which is TSM client able to backup oracle. If I read your question correctly you backup oracle with standard tsm client (cold backup with oracle shut-off), and then yes, you can rebind your files as long they exist in oroginal file system by simply backing them again using new management class. Alternatively you can update (and activate) the management class previously used. regards juraj -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing Retention Paul, Thanks for the suggestion. I am new to ADSM. I am an Oracle DBA. Trying to understand some of these things with ADSM. I will talk to our SAs about this and see if it feasible. I do not know what Oracle TDP is. So I do not know if we are using it or not. But my wild guess is : not (else someone would have informed the Oracle DBAs). Regards, - Kirti -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing Retention You can rebind the files to a new management class with the new retention and I think this will take care of you, but I have not read up on this. I presume you are not using the Oracle TDP. -Original Message- From: Deshpande, Kirti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing Retention Hi, Is there any way to change retention for already archived set of files? We have archived a number of files for an Oracle database with the default setting for the Management Class (4week retention). The need is to make sure this set is preserved beyond the 4week retention time. Thanks. - Kirti
TSM server on NT - experiences
Can anyone comment on good/bad experiences running TSM server on NT? All our experience to date has been on AIX 4.3, but now we're looking into a possible NT deployment. Bob Brazner Johnson Controls, Inc. (414) 524-2570
Re: Software/Hardware compression?
It's not that bad, and not that big a deal. If you look around, you can find individual files that will expand due to compressing a second time (and it doesn't matter whether it's hardware or software compression the second time). But I've done testing with 3490 9840 technology, and if you are backing up a lot of generic systems like Windows and Unix file servers and print servers, overall I wouldn't worry about it. You won't get much ADDITIONAL compression the second time; probably 5-10% at most, but overall it's not likely to hurt you either. If you are backing up a system that contains a large application of MOSTLY compressed files (say a web server that stores zillions of compressed graphics files) you might have reason to be concerned and do some testing on that system before turning on TSM software compression. In general: TSM software compression will slow down the throughput for Backup and Restore on the client end. If you have LOTS of clients, so you need to save space in your disk pool, then use compression on the client. If you are sending over a slow link, then use compression on the client. If you have enough space in your disk pool and no bottleneck in your network, don't use compression on the client. If you have a client with an unusual application that has much pre-compressed data, test before you decide. -Original Message- From: Jason Stoessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Software/Hardware compression? Hi All, I know in other products that you can not run software compression and hardware compression concurrently. I have been told that it results in the files reverting to an almost uncompressed state. What I need is to know if the same applies to TSM. My company are thinking of purchasing TSM so if anyone knows of an official statement from IBM/Tivoli that I can be referred to that would be appreciated. The software platform will be Solaris and the autochanger is an STK L700 with 9840 fibre drives TSM 4.2.1.7. Jason Stoessler Guardian iT
Re: Software/Hardware compression?
I won't call this comparing apples to oranges but it might be Granny Smiths to Red Delicious... I suggest to all our clients that they run TSM client software compression and 90% do but some don't (and often it is because of valid reasons such as servers that house only blah.tar.Z already compressed files, etc...) BUT I also run with the most compression I can get our of my TSM server's 3590 tape drives... so a lot of data is being 1st software compressed by the client and then hardware compressed by my 3590 drives... I'll list some numbers below but basically it seems like I only get 91+% of my tape capacity for one environment and 88.7+% of my tape capacity for another environment with double compression. All this is based on how much you trust the numbers because in an environment that I DON'T DOUBLE COMPRESS... check the numbers at the very bottom ;-) What do I see... Estimated Capacity(MB) (full 3590-J tapes in 3590-B1A drives, with no estcap set) - 9,191.0 9,193.6 9,112.9 9,952.8 9,356.7 9,200.2 9,220.9 and Estimated Capacity(MB) (full 3590-K tapes in 3590-E1A drives, with no estcap set) - 35,995.9 35,407.7 35,377.0 35,549.4 35,547.0 35,658.3 35,328.8 and Estimated Capacity(MB) (full 3590-K tapes in 3590-E1A drives, with no estcap set) NO CLIENT COMPRESSION... - 253,780.6 216,788.5 250,530.4 258,249.1 788,268.4 181,304.0 213,428.1 241,045.4 256,423.9 249,354.7 -Original Message- From: Jason Stoessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Software/Hardware compression? Hi All, I know in other products that you can not run software compression and hardware compression concurrently. I have been told that it results in the files reverting to an almost uncompressed state. What I need is to know if the same applies to TSM. My company are thinking of purchasing TSM so if anyone knows of an official statement from IBM/Tivoli that I can be referred to that would be appreciated. The software platform will be Solaris and the autochanger is an STK L700 with 9840 fibre drives TSM 4.2.1.7. Jason Stoessler Guardian iT
Re: Netware 5.1 4.2.1 Client
Yes, I currently have a PMR opened with Tivoli. I'm warning you.. it's ugly. Tivoli - NDS Transport is a Novell error which Tivoli is only reporting it. Novell - NDS Transport errors are being generated by Tivoli not interfacing properly with Novell. Tivoli - They have no documentation or information from Novell as to what the NDS Transport message is actuall complaining about. Novell - They cannot perform any further diagnosis until they recieve a core dump. So, what do we do? We still get the errors but no core dumps. So, we paitently wait for one of our servers to crash so we can have Novell identify what the problem is. Hat's off to Novell's support orginazation.. They don't know what THEIR error is and cannot do anything else until our server core dumps... great. I must say, Tivoli support has been excellent. TSM Support has followed up more on this problem with Novell then I have. My temporary solution - Exclude NDS on all Novell servers running 5.1 tsm 4.2 Include it on one of our Novell 4.1 TSM 4.1.3 servers where NDS is replicated to. We now only back up NDS on 1 server (which isn't the best but works for now). If you have any better luck please let me know! Good Luck. Regards, Denis L. L'Huiller 973-360-7739 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enterprise Storage Forms - http://admpwb01/misc/misc/storage_forms_main.html Bruce Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T cc: Sent by: Subject: Netware 5.1 4.2.1 Client ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 01/17/2002 11:40 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Has anybody seen these errors backing up an NDS tree? 01/17/2002 11:35:28 ANS1870E NDS transport failure FFFDFEAF has occurred. Please contact Novell to resolve it. 01/17/2002 11:35:29 ANS1228E Sending of object '.[Root].O=SBHD.OU=ZEN_APPLICATIONS.CN=Wincmd32_403' failed 01/17/2002 11:35:29 Skip current operation Report how you got this Thanks, Bruce Kamp Network Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System P: (954)987-2020 x6008 F: (954)985-2274 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TSM server on NT - experiences
Oh Yes Sir... The installation is a snap except for NT / Win 2000 device support... I am the TSM Admin and Storage Admin at my place of business and am familiar with how to do devices on an AIX server. Unfortunately, I must rely on others with regard to Windows administration and the documentation for drivers; both library and drives is miserable to non-existant. Based on what I am being told, Tivoli doesn't have a lot of expertise with regard to Windows device drivers... I also asked for help with this problem on this board and recieved little to no help and I observe others struggling with this issue on a daily basis. Tivoli needs to get their act together with regard to the Windows market... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Storage/System Admin Brazner, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 01/17/2002 10:34:24 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: TSM server on NT - experiences Can anyone comment on good/bad experiences running TSM server on NT? All our experience to date has been on AIX 4.3, but now we're looking into a possible NT deployment. Bob Brazner Johnson Controls, Inc. (414) 524-2570
Re: Netware 5.1 4.2.1 Client
Have you tried to backup NDS on a Netware 5 server with one of the 4.1.3 clients? I am also only backing up NDS on 1 server. Of course the one in question is our master replica that's his only purpose in life You gotta love it Bruce Kamp -Original Message- From: Denis L'Huillier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Netware 5.1 4.2.1 Client Yes, I currently have a PMR opened with Tivoli. I'm warning you.. it's ugly. Tivoli - NDS Transport is a Novell error which Tivoli is only reporting it. Novell - NDS Transport errors are being generated by Tivoli not interfacing properly with Novell. Tivoli - They have no documentation or information from Novell as to what the NDS Transport message is actuall complaining about. Novell - They cannot perform any further diagnosis until they recieve a core dump. So, what do we do? We still get the errors but no core dumps. So, we paitently wait for one of our servers to crash so we can have Novell identify what the problem is. Hat's off to Novell's support orginazation.. They don't know what THEIR error is and cannot do anything else until our server core dumps... great. I must say, Tivoli support has been excellent. TSM Support has followed up more on this problem with Novell then I have. My temporary solution - Exclude NDS on all Novell servers running 5.1 tsm 4.2 Include it on one of our Novell 4.1 TSM 4.1.3 servers where NDS is replicated to. We now only back up NDS on 1 server (which isn't the best but works for now). If you have any better luck please let me know! Good Luck. Regards, Denis L. L'Huiller 973-360-7739 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enterprise Storage Forms - http://admpwb01/misc/misc/storage_forms_main.html Bruce Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T cc: Sent by: Subject: Netware 5.1 4.2.1 Client ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 01/17/2002 11:40 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Has anybody seen these errors backing up an NDS tree? 01/17/2002 11:35:28 ANS1870E NDS transport failure FFFDFEAF has occurred. Please contact Novell to resolve it. 01/17/2002 11:35:29 ANS1228E Sending of object '.[Root].O=SBHD.OU=ZEN_APPLICATIONS.CN=Wincmd32_403' failed 01/17/2002 11:35:29 Skip current operation Report how you got this Thanks, Bruce Kamp Network Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System P: (954)987-2020 x6008 F: (954)985-2274 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TSM server on NT - experiences
I-O. I-O, it's all about I-O. I'm not a Windows heavy, and I don't consider myself an AIX heavy, either (in fact I'm not sure I know anything any more -- better not continue down that road...) But I've done a lot of performance work over the years, and I've done TSM on Windows, TSM on AIX, and TSM on OS/390. They ALL work, remarkably well, UNTIL you start stressing the hardware. TSM, like any other I/O intensive application, gives the hardware a real workout, and is especially brutal on tape. If it's a low-load TSM system, a Windows server will work fine; base your decision on other factors, like YOUR AVAILABLE TAPE HARDWARE and it is supported on Windows; total cost of ownership INCLUDING THE PEOPLE; can you afford a dedicated server or do you need to share with other applications, etc. There are always personal preferences: For instance, the Windows version has more Wizards that make it easier to set up on the front end. Personally I don't like that because later when there's a problem it's harder to debug because you have no clue what you did in the first place. But if the personnel you have available are all Windows-ready, then they can deal with a Windows TSM system much better than if you drop a Unix box in their midst. If it's a high-load TSM system, the question is whether you have the Windows hardware with enough oomph to move the I/O. (Don't even THINK about using an old cast-off system unit, or low-end tape hardware.) Consider, how big is your TSM DB? Is it 20 GB or 30 GB? Is it growing? If this were your company's business-critical application with a 20 GB data base, would you be comfortable running it on Windows? Three years ago, we knew our TSM systems here needed to run on AIX; our Windows hardware at the time would not support the load. With our new Netfinity servers, some of them just scream. We are moving our two low-load TSM servers from AIX to Windows. But the third TSM server still pushes too much I/O for us to be sure Windows can support it, or that it would be cost-effective to buy enough Windows hardware to be comparable. So the answer is IT DEPENDS!!! and the answer is changing all the time as the hardware changes. But I have confidence in the TSM server code on all 3 platforms. Wanda Prather The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab 443-778-8769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think - Scott Adams/Dilbert
Re: Software/Hardware compression?
WOW ! be careful on the slow down statement... NOT THE CASE ! Actually with a big enough client it will greatly speed things up ! We have an SAP environment with a 2.7 TB data base, we back it up in less than 18 hours using client compression if we didn't use client compression it would take 66 hours ! (based on 42 GB/hr ie. flooded fast ethernet) This is a Sun E10K with 64 processors (30 of which are bound to individual backup tasks) going to an IBM S70 TSM server with a diskpool large enough to hold one complete backup cycle. Oh, that is using a 100 MB/sec fast ethernet over which we push 42 GB/hr when we use a GB link we see 56 GB/hr and can back it up in less than 13 hours... So by using client compression we SPEED THING UP and it runs in 1/5th the time ;-) Dwight -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software/Hardware compression? It's not that bad, and not that big a deal. If you look around, you can find individual files that will expand due to compressing a second time (and it doesn't matter whether it's hardware or software compression the second time). But I've done testing with 3490 9840 technology, and if you are backing up a lot of generic systems like Windows and Unix file servers and print servers, overall I wouldn't worry about it. You won't get much ADDITIONAL compression the second time; probably 5-10% at most, but overall it's not likely to hurt you either. If you are backing up a system that contains a large application of MOSTLY compressed files (say a web server that stores zillions of compressed graphics files) you might have reason to be concerned and do some testing on that system before turning on TSM software compression. In general: TSM software compression will slow down the throughput for Backup and Restore on the client end. If you have LOTS of clients, so you need to save space in your disk pool, then use compression on the client. If you are sending over a slow link, then use compression on the client. If you have enough space in your disk pool and no bottleneck in your network, don't use compression on the client. If you have a client with an unusual application that has much pre-compressed data, test before you decide. -Original Message- From: Jason Stoessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Software/Hardware compression? Hi All, I know in other products that you can not run software compression and hardware compression concurrently. I have been told that it results in the files reverting to an almost uncompressed state. What I need is to know if the same applies to TSM. My company are thinking of purchasing TSM so if anyone knows of an official statement from IBM/Tivoli that I can be referred to that would be appreciated. The software platform will be Solaris and the autochanger is an STK L700 with 9840 fibre drives TSM 4.2.1.7. Jason Stoessler Guardian iT
DSMLABEL and LABEL LIBVOL
Hi all !! There are any way to overwrite the tapes with the command label libvolume ? TSM server V4.1 and V4.2 cannot write to DLT SCRATCH volumes labeled via DSMLABEL. There are any fix to solve this problem. Thanks at all !! Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martínez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina
dsm failed to start for system behind firewall
Hello *sm-ers, TSM Server 4.1.1.0 and AIX 4.3.3 TSM Client 4.1.0.0 and AIX 4.3.3 In our environment we have multiple IP-domains seperated by a firewall. For clients in the domain our TSM-server is in, there is no problem. For clients in domains behind firewall there is a problem with the GUI. First we set the DISPLAY variable (export DISPLAY=ipadres:0), then we give command 'dsm'. And after a while receive message 'Error: can't open display'. When we start a session with command 'dsmc', then we can do back-up and restore without problems. Now, we think that it have to do with the security, set on firewall ports. Now we like to know what kind of data-type the commands dsm and dsmc are using, so that we can do a request to open the ports for that kind of data-traffic, so that we can use the GUI in case of a restore. Thank you. Brian. _ Meld je aan bij de grootste e-mailservice wereldwijd met MSN Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com/nl
Any way to set schedlogretention on the server??
Hello, Is there any way to tell the client scheduler to roll over the dsmsched.log, WITHOUT having the user manually set the schedlogretention value in the dsm.sys or dsm.opt Sorta like a client option set ? Thank! Keith
Re: DSMLABEL and LABEL LIBVOL
Hi Christian, I'm kind of a newbie at this but using an automated library, these commands work (in this order) First, check the volumes out: checkout libvol library name volume name remove=bulk force=yes Then label and check them in: label libvol library name search=bulk labelsource=barcode checkin=scratch overwrite=yes That's not very elegant, but it works. -Bern On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Christian Astuni wrote: Hi all !! There are any way to overwrite the tapes with the command label libvolume ? TSM server V4.1 and V4.2 cannot write to DLT SCRATCH volumes labeled via DSMLABEL. There are any fix to solve this problem. Thanks at all !! Christian Astuni IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 4898-4621 Hipolito Yrigoyen 2149 - Martínez (1640) Bs. As. - Argentina
Re: LTO tape visible labels
I (the customer) has a 3583 library and I went through the same issues. Many of our LTO tapes had been ordered via other projects and were not ordered via a library option number therefor didn't come with bar codes. I found a free code 39 (also called 3 of 9) font that close in size to what I needed. I installed it to my workstation. I then made an excel spread sheet with my readable human text and the corresponding machine text following all the LTO guidelines. I did a mail merge with word/excel and made some mailing labels. I used Avery 6870 labels. They are read properly about 98% of the time and have found the door slot the position that fails the most. I think its the light and/or angle on it. able seems to stick ok and hey I can make more. The thing I like most is I have control over the labels and can use different identifiers on them (or colors) that suit our needs here. email me off line if you need more info. -good luck - Michael Yager IBM Global Services (919)382-4808 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/02 01:21PM We are starting to install IBM 3584 library. As we are sending tapes offsite, I would like to implement some additional tracking/audit/security of our offsite tapes with the new tapes. (Make sure ours don't get mixed with others etc.) I know you are not supposed to put labels on the LTO tapes other than the barcode that comes with them. I figured someone must use some method to label their tapes with company name or similar. Any suggestions? Thanks, David Longo MMS health-first.org made the following annotations on 01/10/02 13:34:33 -- 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. ==
tape data in error
Hi: I have two tapes with apparantly no data: VOLUME_NAME PCT_UTILIZEDSTATUS ACCESS PCT_RECLAIM LAST_WRITE_DATE LAST_READ_DATE 000178 0.5 FILLING OFFSITE 99.94/13/01 2:54:20 PM 4/15/01 9:38:25 PM tsm: BACKUPq cont 000178 ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11. VOLUME_NAME PCT_UTILIZEDSTATUS ACCESS PCT_RECLAIM LAST_WRITE_DATE LAST_READ_DATE 67 0 FILLING OFFSITE 100 1/3/02 11:32:54 AM 1/3/02 11:06:32 AM tsm: BACKUPq cont 67 ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11 Do do I remove them?
Re: dsm failed to start for system behind firewall
Mr Welsh, when trying to run X remotely you have do this. A = ip of machine running Xwin B = ip of machine you're trying to run remote X app on. on machine A type xhost +B Now, that's not to say that the firewall isn't stopping it as well, but it's at least a place to begin. Enjoy! -ed brian welsh wrote: Hello *sm-ers, TSM Server 4.1.1.0 and AIX 4.3.3 TSM Client 4.1.0.0 and AIX 4.3.3 In our environment we have multiple IP-domains seperated by a firewall. For clients in the domain our TSM-server is in, there is no problem. For clients in domains behind firewall there is a problem with the GUI. First we set the DISPLAY variable (export DISPLAY=ipadres:0), then we give command 'dsm'. And after a while receive message 'Error: can't open display'. When we start a session with command 'dsmc', then we can do back-up and restore without problems. Now, we think that it have to do with the security, set on firewall ports. Now we like to know what kind of data-type the commands dsm and dsmc are using, so that we can do a request to open the ports for that kind of data-traffic, so that we can use the GUI in case of a restore. Thank you. Brian. _ Meld je aan bij de grootste e-mailservice wereldwijd met MSN Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com/nl -- Ed Anderson Unix Systems Administrator University of Mississippi Medical Center [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date math and the Events table
First off, I should say that I have read (and think I understand) Andy Raibeck's explanation from 11/23/2001 of the restrictions on queries against the Events table. However, in trying to craft a query that returns records from a relative timeframe, I am running into some problems getting the result that I would like to get. What I am trying to do is run a query that yields the same results as q ev * * begind=-1 endd=today begint=08:00 endt=07:59 with an eye toward doing some calculations on the number of events with different status conditions This is what I came up with: select - schedule_name, - time(scheduled_start) as Scheduled, - time(actual_start) as Actual, - status as Status, - node_name as Client - from events - where node_name is not null - and date(scheduled_start+16 hour-1 minute)=date(current_timestamp) This returns events only from the current day However, if I hard-code the dates as follows: select - schedule_name, - date(scheduled_start),- time(scheduled_start) as Scheduled, - time(actual_start) as Actual, - status as Status, - node_name as Client - from events - where node_name is not null - and scheduled_start between - '2002-01-16 08:01:00' and - '2002-01-17 08:00:59' I get a lengthy listing of all events, as I do from the query event command. I suspect that there is some voodoo happening with the relative date calculation not occurring before the events are restricted to the current date, but I have not been able to come up with a query that works as I would like it to. Any suggestions or pointers on performing date math in SQL queries would be greatly appreciated Thanks, Ted
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
Well this is not the case Daniel. I do have Unix experience. With Sun's version of Unix before it became Solaris, SunOS, with SCO Unix, with DEC Ultrix and another company who's no longer in business Convergent. I don't remember what they called it. I've used X-Terminals on my desktop before PC's became vogue. Shoot I even modified DEC's install script to support third party drives with Ultrix. Windows is everything Unix should be, easy to use, powerful... I think many so called 'Unix specialists' are just jealous that mom and pop from down the street can setup Windows in an afternoon and do everything that the specialists took 3 days to get running on Unix. -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Normally, this opinion is because you don't have any experience using UNIX. If you we're a unix specialist, what would you prefer? NT or UNIX? The performance gain using UNIX vs NT is not that high when using a small amount of clients. However, using a large amount of clients, over 100, gains a lot of performance. At the customer I earlier described, we had to use an NT server temporary, because there was a slight delay in the delivery of the UNIX machine. The NT machine could backup machines in the morning, while users were working. If I were to backup a 100 clients in morning using the UNIX machine, everything else would stop, because the UNIX machine has a lot higher throughput. The customer had a T/R bridge, and when we started backing up with the UNIX machine, we got the comment from the network guy that the bridge had never been so highly utilized. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman PS This question has been on the ADSM.ORG list before. Which operating system you choose to use is normally based on what knowledge you have. --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Remeta, Mark MRemeta@SELIGMATo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NDATA.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 2002-01-17 17:23 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager If I had a choice between unix and nt I would choose nt every time. It's much easier to use and the much ballyhooed performance gained by using unix is not that great. Mark -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? The cost of an HP LXr8500 with the configuration descripted shouldn't be much lower than a UNIX box with comparable performance. For example and IBM P-Series 610 with PowerPC processors running at 450Mhz would require 2 processor card to be comparable to and 8-way HP intel machine. So, please don't say that a UNIX box is MUCH more expensive. What you have done is to maximize an intel machine. If you were to maximize and UNIX box, it could probably handle as least 10 times the amount of clients. And, then it would be much more expensive. But that isn't what we're talking about. We have a single processor machine running 180 servers, with about 500-600GB of incremental data each night. This machine is half asleep when running backups. Thats the difference in performance. Everybody knows, that if you put an intel machine against a UNIX machine and compare I/O performance, the UNIX machine will outrun the intel box without any problems. And, almost all work that a TSM servers is doing, is related to I/O (disk transactions, db transactions, migration and so on...). Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Boireau, Eric (MED) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] eric.boireau@Mcc: ED.GE.COM Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ST.EDU 2002-01-17 10:54 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager I do on Win2K Box : More than 650 Completed backup Win9x, NT, 2K Clients backup / days More than 80 NT/ 20 Unix Completed Backup / days 10
Re: Netware 5.1 4.2.1 Client
Denis, what version of support pack are you running? Were running 4.2.1.19 on 5.1 and we can backup the NDS without errors. What's the version of your tsa500.nlm, tsands.nlm and smdr.nlm??? Mark -Original Message- From: Denis L'Huillier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Netware 5.1 4.2.1 Client Yes, I currently have a PMR opened with Tivoli. I'm warning you.. it's ugly. Tivoli - NDS Transport is a Novell error which Tivoli is only reporting it. Novell - NDS Transport errors are being generated by Tivoli not interfacing properly with Novell. Tivoli - They have no documentation or information from Novell as to what the NDS Transport message is actuall complaining about. Novell - They cannot perform any further diagnosis until they recieve a core dump. So, what do we do? We still get the errors but no core dumps. So, we paitently wait for one of our servers to crash so we can have Novell identify what the problem is. Hat's off to Novell's support orginazation.. They don't know what THEIR error is and cannot do anything else until our server core dumps... great. I must say, Tivoli support has been excellent. TSM Support has followed up more on this problem with Novell then I have. My temporary solution - Exclude NDS on all Novell servers running 5.1 tsm 4.2 Include it on one of our Novell 4.1 TSM 4.1.3 servers where NDS is replicated to. We now only back up NDS on 1 server (which isn't the best but works for now). If you have any better luck please let me know! Good Luck. Regards, Denis L. L'Huiller 973-360-7739 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enterprise Storage Forms - http://admpwb01/misc/misc/storage_forms_main.html Bruce Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T cc: Sent by: Subject: Netware 5.1 4.2.1 Client ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 01/17/2002 11:40 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Has anybody seen these errors backing up an NDS tree? 01/17/2002 11:35:28 ANS1870E NDS transport failure FFFDFEAF has occurred. Please contact Novell to resolve it. 01/17/2002 11:35:29 ANS1228E Sending of object '.[Root].O=SBHD.OU=ZEN_APPLICATIONS.CN=Wincmd32_403' failed 01/17/2002 11:35:29 Skip current operation Report how you got this Thanks, Bruce Kamp Network Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System P: (954)987-2020 x6008 F: (954)985-2274 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Note: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to whom or which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please delete this material immediately.
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
The issue here that the user asked about was related to scalability. The reality is a Windows Server will only scale so far and a UNIX server will scale about 10 times as suggested. The real question to be asked is how often does your rabbit farm get pregnant and add more servers. If you have AIX experience onsite to support the OS then I would go that route. TSM administration is nearly identical through the ADMIN Browser GUI on both. The amount of UNIX work that you do is relatively small. If you have no AIX expertise onsite and a reasonably small number of client machines (desktops and servers), then Windows would be your platform. I nearly never log onto the AIX server or Windows server except to delete storage pool volumes on disk. Everything is done through the ADMIN command line or the GUI. I am a mainframe person, either AIX or Windows are easy as far as I am concerned. We have both. And like I said there is not that much system level stuff to do. -Original Message- From: Remeta, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Well this is not the case Daniel. I do have Unix experience. With Sun's version of Unix before it became Solaris, SunOS, with SCO Unix, with DEC Ultrix and another company who's no longer in business Convergent. I don't remember what they called it. I've used X-Terminals on my desktop before PC's became vogue. Shoot I even modified DEC's install script to support third party drives with Ultrix. Windows is everything Unix should be, easy to use, powerful... I think many so called 'Unix specialists' are just jealous that mom and pop from down the street can setup Windows in an afternoon and do everything that the specialists took 3 days to get running on Unix. -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Normally, this opinion is because you don't have any experience using UNIX. If you we're a unix specialist, what would you prefer? NT or UNIX? The performance gain using UNIX vs NT is not that high when using a small amount of clients. However, using a large amount of clients, over 100, gains a lot of performance. At the customer I earlier described, we had to use an NT server temporary, because there was a slight delay in the delivery of the UNIX machine. The NT machine could backup machines in the morning, while users were working. If I were to backup a 100 clients in morning using the UNIX machine, everything else would stop, because the UNIX machine has a lot higher throughput. The customer had a T/R bridge, and when we started backing up with the UNIX machine, we got the comment from the network guy that the bridge had never been so highly utilized. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman PS This question has been on the ADSM.ORG list before. Which operating system you choose to use is normally based on what knowledge you have. --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Remeta, Mark MRemeta@SELIGMATo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NDATA.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 2002-01-17 17:23 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager If I had a choice between unix and nt I would choose nt every time. It's much easier to use and the much ballyhooed performance gained by using unix is not that great. Mark -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 4:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work? The cost of an HP LXr8500 with the configuration descripted shouldn't be much lower than a UNIX box with comparable performance. For example and IBM P-Series 610 with PowerPC processors running at 450Mhz would require 2 processor card to be comparable to and 8-way HP intel machine. So, please don't say that a UNIX box is MUCH more expensive. What you have done is to maximize an intel machine. If you were to maximize and UNIX box, it could probably handle as least 10 times the amount of clients. And, then it would be much more expensive. But that isn't what we're talking about. We have a single processor machine running 180 servers, with about 500-600GB of incremental data each night. This machine is half asleep when running backups. Thats the difference in performance. Everybody knows, that if you put an intel
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
Putting all the OS/HW dogma aside, IBM/Tivoli doesn't support TSM on NT as seriously as it does on other, more 'expensive' platforms. Earlier this year, we discovered a serious (fatal actually) flaw with TSM on WinNT 4. TSM would hang each and every time a platter was unmounted from a drive in a 3995-C66 optical library. The bug was reported the same day it was discovered, and escalated to management within a week. The answer Tivoli gave was wait for the next maintenance release. It took four weeks. On larger, more expensive platforms, patches of this sort are of a higher priority. Why? Because the customer running on more expensive hardware likely spent the extra money for a higher level of performance. I doubt I would have waited more than two or three days of the problem I described had appeared on AIX. -JD. We are considering installing TSM server, and are being 'encouraged' to run it on AIX but are a little cold to the idea. We have more experience supporting Windows 2000. Does anyone have any feedback on the stability or performance of TSM server running on Windows? Feel free to mail directly if you have any information that you willing to share but are uncomfortable putting on the list. Thanks Powered by telstra.com
Re: Software/Hardware compression?
One of the reason folks consider compression is to reduce backup times on the client side. However, I have never seen a case where compressing on the client reduced the backup time. Never. Always longer. Always. I concur with Wanda's assessment: if you need the space in the disk pool, then perhaps compress (this is also handled automatically by migration so who cares!). Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software/Hardware compression? It's not that bad, and not that big a deal. If you look around, you can find individual files that will expand due to compressing a second time (and it doesn't matter whether it's hardware or software compression the second time). But I've done testing with 3490 9840 technology, and if you are backing up a lot of generic systems like Windows and Unix file servers and print servers, overall I wouldn't worry about it. You won't get much ADDITIONAL compression the second time; probably 5-10% at most, but overall it's not likely to hurt you either. If you are backing up a system that contains a large application of MOSTLY compressed files (say a web server that stores zillions of compressed graphics files) you might have reason to be concerned and do some testing on that system before turning on TSM software compression. In general: TSM software compression will slow down the throughput for Backup and Restore on the client end. If you have LOTS of clients, so you need to save space in your disk pool, then use compression on the client. If you are sending over a slow link, then use compression on the client. If you have enough space in your disk pool and no bottleneck in your network, don't use compression on the client. If you have a client with an unusual application that has much pre-compressed data, test before you decide. -Original Message- From: Jason Stoessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Software/Hardware compression? Hi All, I know in other products that you can not run software compression and hardware compression concurrently. I have been told that it results in the files reverting to an almost uncompressed state. What I need is to know if the same applies to TSM. My company are thinking of purchasing TSM so if anyone knows of an official statement from IBM/Tivoli that I can be referred to that would be appreciated. The software platform will be Solaris and the autochanger is an STK L700 with 9840 fibre drives TSM 4.2.1.7. Jason Stoessler Guardian iT
Scheduling backups for road warriors
Hi, How does one go about setting up tivoli schedules for people who are not connected 24x7. Ideally, I would like to be able to specify when the backup occurs from the client side. My understanding is that the scheduler polls the server for the next backup time, at which time I may not be connected again. I also don't want the client to backup a s soon as it connects either? Regards, Dave
Re: Changing Retention
If the situation is a short term one time thing, you can change your management class retention period for the affected management calss until the need has passed and then change it back. Whilst I have a lot of management classes for ad-hoc archives arch_1M, arch_1y and so on, for any application that has an archive requirement I give them their own archive management class that is named by function rather than retention period specifically so that it can be changed easily when requirements change Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this e-mail is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. **
TSM can do it! - Reply
Nazir, Lots of people on this list have tried to help you, and you either can't or don't want to understand. Please get yourself some training or contact yout local Tivoli reseller for assistance. Either that or use NTBACKUP or some other product rather than TSM. TSM works differently to other products and trying to make it work other than the way it is designed will only bring trouble and disappointment. Your installation is very small, maybe TSM is not the right product for your site. Steve Harris TSM and AIX Guy Brisbane Australia Nazir [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/18 4:56 am Hi, I want to work with TSM like this way: 1-Make backup of client. It4s easy! 2-Keep the backups into the disk and after send the data to tape(one tape is enough)and the TSM managements this tape (record and erase data when it is possible). Can I do it? How can I configure pool of tapes? Thank you. ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this e-mail is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. **
Re: Which tape is the DBBACKUP?
- Try to reformat the DB volume(s) (files, not DB backup tape). - Try what if you delete /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv.dsk Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Michel David [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 14.01.2002 11:41:29 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Which tape is the DBBACKUP? Hi Tsm'rs Thank you for answering, my precedent requests. NT4.0 SP5 TSM3.7.3 The Library computer HD crashed. We don't know which tape is the DBBACKUP How can we test it ? When I try one with DSMSERV RESTORE DB, and it's not the good one, nothing don't work anymore and I had to reinstall TSM ! Is there a trick ? Thank you very much. __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
Re: Problem with HSM on AIX
Hi, It seems like that your HSM is in inconsistent state. HSM maintain its pointer inventory in .SpaceMan file in the HSM filesystem. You can try the fixfsm utility command first to fix your HSM filesystem and see what's happened to your HSM filesystem. Just type fixfsm /filesystem_name and see the output. I hope this can help you. salam, # ./indra GrandBasin - Indonesia --- Gerhard Rentschler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, last week we had an unscheduled power interuption. Since then we have a problem with HSM. The client is at level 3.1.20.7, the server is TSM 4.1.2. When doing a reconciliation we get the following error messages in dsmerror.log: 01/17/02 10:29:01 DoReconcile: ReconFileSpace failed /hsm, rc: 102 01/17/02 10:29:02 ANS9082W dsmreconcile: error encountered while reconciling file system /hsm. I can't find any further information. Could anybody tell me what this means? A further question: Is there anything I could do like a fsck? Best regards Gerhard Gerhard Rentschler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager Central Servers Services Regional Computing Center tel: ++49/711/6855806 University of Stuttgartfax: ++49/711/682357 Allmandring 30a D 70550 Stuttgart Germany __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
Re: dsm failed to start for system behind firewall
1. xhost +TSM_node_IP_or_name - as Ed pointed this is the most often the reason. X does have some security at the end. 2. Ensure telnet X_server 6000 from the node does connect and firewall does not block it. Or investigate usage of web client on those nodes. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant brian welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17.01.2002 22:18:45 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:dsm failed to start for system behind firewall Hello *sm-ers, TSM Server 4.1.1.0 and AIX 4.3.3 TSM Client 4.1.0.0 and AIX 4.3.3 In our environment we have multiple IP-domains seperated by a firewall. For clients in the domain our TSM-server is in, there is no problem. For clients in domains behind firewall there is a problem with the GUI. First we set the DISPLAY variable (export DISPLAY=ipadres:0), then we give command 'dsm'. And after a while receive message 'Error: can't open display'. When we start a session with command 'dsmc', then we can do back-up and restore without problems. Now, we think that it have to do with the security, set on firewall ports. Now we like to know what kind of data-type the commands dsm and dsmc are using, so that we can do a request to open the ports for that kind of data-traffic, so that we can use the GUI in case of a restore. Thank you. Brian. _ Meld je aan bij de grootste e-mailservice wereldwijd met MSN Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com/nl
Re: What qualifies as an in use license?
Bill, I cannot agree with you that 3 frame SP need 3 licenses. IBM is talking about ASCI White as a single supercomputer. So for me each SP is *one* system. Moreover for both commercial (DB2 *single* partitioned database spread over instances on each node) or scientific/technical (solving differential equations using Parallel ESSL) load this can be thought as single server from the application. The question is does the tiering depend on # of processors in a frame or in the frame. Or even what to do if we have two frames - one with total 32 processors and second with only 16. The question is just for curiosity - Wide Nodes are up to 4 processors, High Node is up to 16, so very easily single frame can give us Tier 3 (8 nodes x 4 or 4 nodes x 16 processors). Cheating with TSM licenses will not help too much - price of empty frame is much higher than difference between T2 and T3. The things get worse because IBM already announced Cluster 1600. This is actually pSeries servers acting as SP Nodes. They run PSSP, PE, ParESSL, etc. Server M80 or 6M1 with 8 processors roughly is having same performance as High Node. But they are Cluster 1600 not SP. So we should count several Tier 2 licenses instead of one Tier 3. But if nodes are fully loaded S80,S85 or pSeries 690 we go to several Tier 3 licenses. If we go to Wanda's answer - when failover occurs the failing node was active within last 30 days so counts for a license (MgSysSAN!) and the surviving node just started to access the SAN so will need second license ? If we count three nodes it will be cheaper - 2xSAN vs. 1xSAN+2xLAN. But which is the correct configuration? Jason, do not forget that Tivoli sales people are human beings as we are. They can also make mistakes. And as we see here there is very easy both to be right and wrong. We are shooting in the darkness. Look the results Bill and Daniel got - same question, two different answers. Are both salespersons right, one is wrong (which one) or both made a mistake? Daniel, SuperDome *may* require Tier 3 when is 14 processors or more. 3-cell (12 proc) SuperDome ought to be Tier 2. The question there would be is rp8400 V-Class system or not?. I think the answer should be no and 16-processor rp8400 should be Tier 2. But the definition is fuzzy. With the argument Bill pointed I feel my hands untied and can define any number of nodes for a server. So I am back to my main question - what is managed system? And the fact we do not have consensus for the answer pinpoints the unclear part of TSM licensing. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Bill Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 17.01.2002 17:22:45 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Daniel, sorry, but that's not correct. Two registered nodes on the same physical machine requires only one purchased license. Check with Tivoli. You are permitted to register additional licenses on the TSM server to cover this situation. William Mansfield Senior Consultant Solution Technology, Inc Daniel Sparrman daniel.sparrman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] @EXIST.SE cc: Sent by: ADSM:Subject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 01/17/2002 09:04 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager HP Superdome requires a tier 3 license. This is calculated based on processor, and system type. A tier 3 managed license is not a cheap license. So for special occasions the price goes up. When registering two nodes on the same machine, and then accessing the TSM server with both nodes, you have 2 managed systems for LAN in use. This should mean that it's not the physical machine that is a managed system, but rather each registred node that is accessing the server. For clustered Windows NT/2000 machines, you need 3 licenses if the cluster contains two clusternodes; one for each local system, and one for the virtual cluster system. This is also an exampel of how licensing works; it's not the physical machine, rather the nodename that is accessing the server. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Bergkällavägen 31D 192 79 SOLLENTUNA Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Bill Mansfield WMansfield@SOLUTIONTECHNTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OLOGY.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Dist StorSubject: Re: What qualifies as an in use license? Manager [EMAIL
