Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space?
Hi there, I've read here http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21608413 that TSM for VE is using content-aware backup, if CBT is enabled. It also says that TSM for VE will enable CBT after the first backup. So I'm wondering if enabling CBT before performing the first backup would make TSM for VE backup only the used blocks (i.e. used space) and hence would save space on the storage pool? Or would TSM for VE still backup the full VMDK, including possible lots of unused space inside it on the first backup? Regards, Michael
: TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company.
Antwort: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
...mmh, without any details ..some ideas: ..TSM related: - do you use TSM DRM, and if so what about the no. of days/reusedelay settings - ..and with the same background, what about reusedelay on your primary tape pools - audit library to find lost tapes - is expiration running daily to free your tapes - is space reclamation running daily to free your tapes .. not TSM related: - any growth other admins or users did not inform you about, so you really need more tapes regards, Dierk | | Von: | | --| |Adeel Mehmood ad.mehm...@diyarme.com | --| | | An:| | --| |ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, | --| | | Datum: | | --| |08.07.2013 11:14 | --| | | Betreff: | | --| |[ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes | --| | | Gesendet | | von: | | --| |ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU | --| Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company. Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen GmbH Co. KG Gasstraße 18 22761 Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Klaus-Jürgen Baum, Dr. Norbert Sellin, Stefan Duncker Registergericht: Hamburg HRA 85212 USt-IdNr.: DE 117 981 371 Steuer-Nr.: 27/541/00020 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin: Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen Verwaltungs-GmbH Registergericht: Hamburg HRB 45 704 Umfassende Informationen: Die neue Bürgel Vollauskunft. Jetzt mit noch mehr Euler Hermes Expertise. Informationen unter http://www.buergel.de und http://www.buergel.de/vollauskunft Professionelles Forderungsmanagement für mehr Liquidität. Debitorenmanagement, Inkasso, Forderungskauf. Informationen unter http://www.buergel.de/produkte-leistungen/forderungsmanagement.html DDMonitor - Deutscher Debitoren Monitor. Transparenz hinsichtlich potenzieller Bonitätsrisiken innerhalb Ihres Kundenportfolios. Informationen unter: http://www.buergel.de/produkte-leistungen/wirtschaftsinformationen/ddmonitor.html BÜRGEL Wirtschaftsinformationen seit 1885
Which files have I restored
This may sound like a dumb question. I did a file system restore with replace=no. Of about 20 000 files, 2333 were restored. Total number of objects restored: 2,333 Total number of objects failed: 0 Total number of bytes transferred: 832.31 MB Data transfer time: 46.47 sec Network data transfer rate: 18,339.19 KB/sec Aggregate data transfer rate:520.59 KB/sec Elapsed processing time: 00:27:17 How do I get a list of which files were restored? What if I had used the GUI? Hans Chr.
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
Sounds like you are having tape library problems. A defective tape drive, where a tape won't eject properly, is a common cause of Unavailable, as is a bad gripper dropping a tape inside the library. A tape drive which can't read or write properly will rapidly cause tapes to be forced read-only, as if they are bad, but they are not. So, look into you hardware there. Richard Sims, still at Boston University On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:13 AM, Adeel Mehmood ad.mehm...@diyarme.com wrote: Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel
Re: Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space?
If your VM's were created in VSphere 5, CBT will be on by default. My understanding is that either way (starting with CBT on or off), you should only get USED space on the first backup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Roesch Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 4:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space? Hi there, I've read here http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21608413 that TSM for VE is using content-aware backup, if CBT is enabled. It also says that TSM for VE will enable CBT after the first backup. So I'm wondering if enabling CBT before performing the first backup would make TSM for VE backup only the used blocks (i.e. used space) and hence would save space on the storage pool? Or would TSM for VE still backup the full VMDK, including possible lots of unused space inside it on the first backup? Regards, Michael
FW: [ADSM-L] Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space?
Hi Wanda No quite sure at least in Vsphere 5 (maybe Vsphere 5.1) , I always check with the command: dsmc show VM all and the parameter : changeTracking: Off About the first backup will take only the USED space , at least in my environment some machines works fine but some others backup the ALL space !!! Best Regards Robert -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 3:47 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space? If your VM's were created in VSphere 5, CBT will be on by default. My understanding is that either way (starting with CBT on or off), you should only get USED space on the first backup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Roesch Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 4:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space? Hi there, I've read here http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21608413 that TSM for VE is using content-aware backup, if CBT is enabled. It also says that TSM for VE will enable CBT after the first backup. So I'm wondering if enabling CBT before performing the first backup would make TSM for VE backup only the used blocks (i.e. used space) and hence would save space on the storage pool? Or would TSM for VE still backup the full VMDK, including possible lots of unused space inside it on the first backup? Regards, Michael
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
Hi Richard, Thanks for the input ,you are right we have lots of volumes getting unavailable in couple of weeks. We have replaced the 4 tape drives of 14 tapes drives a , but no luck ! Still getting lots for volumes becoming unavailable and Scratch tapes becomes ZERO ! Thanks , Adeel Mehmood -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 2:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Sounds like you are having tape library problems. A defective tape drive, where a tape won't eject properly, is a common cause of Unavailable, as is a bad gripper dropping a tape inside the library. A tape drive which can't read or write properly will rapidly cause tapes to be forced read-only, as if they are bad, but they are not. So, look into you hardware there. Richard Sims, still at Boston University On Jul 8, 2013, at 5:13 AM, Adeel Mehmood ad.mehm...@diyarme.com wrote: Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company.
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
You may be able to run diagnostics to try to get information on what's going on. Definitely inspect OS logs and the TSM Activity Log for any details on the error condition. Also, verify that your drive and library firmware levels are at an appropriate version: replacement drives may come with an old firmware level, which could cause problems. Your tape drive technology may support TapeAlert, which could then be turned on. If still problematic, you could try putting suspect drives offline to try to isolate the troublemakers. An unlikely cause of problems would be a bad batch of tapes. (I once unspooled a name-brand problem tape to see if it had a physical media problem - and actually found a factory splice!) Richard Sims
Re: Which files have I restored
Hi Hans, When you use the QUIET option, informational messages such as files that were restored are not displayed in the command line client. The GUI does not display the successfully restored files at all (regardless of whether the QUIET option is used). By default the command line and GUI clients log files that were skipped. For this case, you could examine the dsmerror.log file for the skipped files, and compare it to the results of the dsmc query backup x:\ -subdir=yes command to net out the files that were restored. Have a look at the client AUDITLOGGING option. This would be helpful for future restore scenarios. Best regards, - Andy Andrew Raibeck | Tivoli Storage Manager Level 3 Technical Lead | stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager links: Product support: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager Online documentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli Documentation Central/page/Tivoli Storage Manager Product Wiki: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli +Storage+Manager/page/Home ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2013-07-08 06:43:37: From: Hans Christian Riksheim bull...@gmail.com To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 2013-07-08 06:44 Subject: Which files have I restored Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu This may sound like a dumb question. I did a file system restore with replace=no. Of about 20 000 files, 2333 were restored. Total number of objects restored: 2,333 Total number of objects failed: 0 Total number of bytes transferred: 832.31 MB Data transfer time: 46.47 sec Network data transfer rate: 18,339.19 KB/sec Aggregate data transfer rate:520.59 KB/sec Elapsed processing time: 00:27:17 How do I get a list of which files were restored? What if I had used the GUI? Hans Chr.
TDP for Exchange2010 6.4.0.0 Incremental backups not truncating logs
Tsm server 6.2.4.0 Tsm client 6.4.0.0 Tdp client 6.4.0.0 I have powershell scripts running our full incremental Exchange 2010 backups. The full backups truncate the logs, but the incremental do not. I've read through the doc and googled, but haven't found any reason. Nothing obvious showing up in the app logs. Any help would be appreciated. Here are the pertinent commands/files: incremental backup command: .\TDPEXCC BACKUP * INCREMENTAL /PreferDAGPassive /MinimumBackupInterval=10 /SkipIntegrityCheck /DAGNode=EXCHANGE2010 /BackupMethod=VSS /BackupDestination=TSM /LogFile=$myTsmSchedLog $myTempFile results: VSS Backup operation completed with rc = 0 Files Examined : 3530 Files Completed : 3530 Files Failed : 0 Files Deduplicated : 0 Total Bytes Inspected: 3620460520 Total Bytes : 3622488810 Total LanFree Bytes : 0 Total Bytes Before Deduplication : 0 Total Bytes After Deduplication : 0 Files Compressed By : 0% Deduplication Reduction : 0.00% Total Data Reduction Ratio : 0.00% The operation completed successfully. (rc = 0) dsm.opt: * * Tivoli Storage Manager - BCBST Win Servers TDP Exchange Clients *Installed Fri 04/19/2013 11:30:58.60 * * * Identification Section * nodename _MAIL tcpserveraddress .bcbst.com tcpport5002 tcpclientaddress .bcbst.com tcpclientport 1510 tcpcadaddress localhost tcpclientport 1510 HTTPport 1581 webports 1503,1504 * * TCP/IP Section * commmethod TCPIP tcpbuffsize512 tcpwindowsize 1024 diskbuffsize 32 * * CAD/Schedule Settings Section * managedservicesschedule errorlogretention 90 schedlogretention 14 schedmode polling queryschedperiod 1 * * Misc Section * clusternodeno passwordaccess Generate tdpexc.cfg: * * IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail * Data Protection for Exchange Configuration File * LogFile tdpsched.log LogPrune 90 MountWaitForData Yes MountWaitYes BackupMethod VSS TempLogRestorePath F:\tdp-temp TempDBRestorePathF:\tdp-temp MailboxRestoreUnread No StoreMailboxInfo NO Retries 4 SkipIntegrityCheck YES Language ENU BackupDestinationTSM LocalDSMAgentNode DAGNode EXCHANGE2010 ImportVSSSnapshotsOnlyWhenNeeded NO VSSPOLICY * * INCREMENTAL TSM EXCHANGE_LOGS VSSPOLICY * * FULLTSM EXCHANGE_DB Steve Schaub Systems Engineer II, Windows Backup/Recovery BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee - Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
Re: Which files have I restored
Thanks! auditlogging does the trick. Hans Chr. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi Hans, When you use the QUIET option, informational messages such as files that were restored are not displayed in the command line client. The GUI does not display the successfully restored files at all (regardless of whether the QUIET option is used). By default the command line and GUI clients log files that were skipped. For this case, you could examine the dsmerror.log file for the skipped files, and compare it to the results of the dsmc query backup x:\ -subdir=yes command to net out the files that were restored. Have a look at the client AUDITLOGGING option. This would be helpful for future restore scenarios. Best regards, - Andy Andrew Raibeck | Tivoli Storage Manager Level 3 Technical Lead | stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager links: Product support: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager Online documentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli Documentation Central/page/Tivoli Storage Manager Product Wiki: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli +Storage+Manager/page/Homehttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli%0A+Storage+Manager/page/Home ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2013-07-08 06:43:37: From: Hans Christian Riksheim bull...@gmail.com To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 2013-07-08 06:44 Subject: Which files have I restored Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu This may sound like a dumb question. I did a file system restore with replace=no. Of about 20 000 files, 2333 were restored. Total number of objects restored: 2,333 Total number of objects failed: 0 Total number of bytes transferred: 832.31 MB Data transfer time: 46.47 sec Network data transfer rate: 18,339.19 KB/sec Aggregate data transfer rate:520.59 KB/sec Elapsed processing time: 00:27:17 How do I get a list of which files were restored? What if I had used the GUI? Hans Chr.
Re: TDP for Exchange2010 6.4.0.0 Incremental backups not truncating logs
Hi Steve, With Exchange 2010, especially when set up in a Database Availability Group (DAG), the log truncation can be delayed because Exchange must make sure all log updates are sent and committed in all copies (active and passive) before it truncates the logs. A backup product (like TSM) completes a full backup and reports the backup is successful to Exchange. It is then the responsibility of Exchange to perform the actual log file truncation. You should see evidence of this notification to truncate logs in the Windows Event log. We have seen cases when Exchange is still failing to truncate logs. In those cases, customers have needed to engage Microsoft support to find what is preventing Exchange from performing the log truncation. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 07/08/2013 09:42:04 AM: From: Schaub, Steve steve_sch...@bcbst.com To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 07/08/2013 09:42 AM Subject: TDP for Exchange2010 6.4.0.0 Incremental backups not truncating logs Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Tsm server 6.2.4.0 Tsm client 6.4.0.0 Tdp client 6.4.0.0 I have powershell scripts running our full incremental Exchange 2010 backups. The full backups truncate the logs, but the incremental do not. I've read through the doc and googled, but haven't found any reason. Nothing obvious showing up in the app logs. Any help would be appreciated. Here are the pertinent commands/files: incremental backup command: .\TDPEXCC BACKUP * INCREMENTAL /PreferDAGPassive / MinimumBackupInterval=10 /SkipIntegrityCheck /DAGNode=EXCHANGE2010 / BackupMethod=VSS /BackupDestination=TSM /LogFile=$myTsmSchedLog $myTempFile results: VSS Backup operation completed with rc = 0 Files Examined : 3530 Files Completed : 3530 Files Failed : 0 Files Deduplicated : 0 Total Bytes Inspected: 3620460520 Total Bytes : 3622488810 Total LanFree Bytes : 0 Total Bytes Before Deduplication : 0 Total Bytes After Deduplication : 0 Files Compressed By : 0% Deduplication Reduction : 0.00% Total Data Reduction Ratio : 0.00% The operation completed successfully. (rc = 0) dsm.opt: * * Tivoli Storage Manager - BCBST Win Servers TDP Exchange Clients *Installed Fri 04/19/2013 11:30:58.60 * * * Identification Section * nodename _MAIL tcpserveraddress .bcbst.com tcpport5002 tcpclientaddress .bcbst.com tcpclientport 1510 tcpcadaddress localhost tcpclientport 1510 HTTPport 1581 webports 1503,1504 * * TCP/IP Section * commmethod TCPIP tcpbuffsize512 tcpwindowsize 1024 diskbuffsize 32 * * CAD/Schedule Settings Section * managedservicesschedule errorlogretention 90 schedlogretention 14 schedmode polling queryschedperiod 1 * * Misc Section * clusternodeno passwordaccess Generate tdpexc.cfg: * * IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Mail * Data Protection for Exchange Configuration File * LogFile tdpsched.log LogPrune 90 MountWaitForData Yes MountWaitYes BackupMethod VSS TempLogRestorePath F:\tdp-temp TempDBRestorePathF:\tdp-temp MailboxRestoreUnread No StoreMailboxInfo NO Retries 4 SkipIntegrityCheck YES Language ENU BackupDestinationTSM LocalDSMAgentNode DAGNode EXCHANGE2010 ImportVSSSnapshotsOnlyWhenNeeded NO VSSPOLICY * * INCREMENTAL TSM EXCHANGE_LOGS VSSPOLICY * * FULLTSM EXCHANGE_DB
Re: Downloadable Infocenter from techprev
Hi - I am happy to report that the downloadable information centers are a vailable: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/techprev/infocenter/ Many thanks for your patience. Angela Angela Robertson IBM Software Group Durham, NC 27703 aprob...@us.ibm.com ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 06/14/2013 03:19:26 PM: J. Pohlmann jpohlm...@shaw.ca Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu 06/14/2013 03:19 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu To ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, cc Subject [ADSM-L] Downloadable Infocenter from techprev Hi Angela. Is the downloadable 6.4 infocenter on techprev being updated for 6.3.4 server documentation? If so, could you please let us know so we can download the updated infocenter. Thanks. Best regards, Joerg Pohlmann +1-250-585-3711
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
If your tapes have been marked UNAVAILABLE because they were temporarily unavailable to TSM for whatever reason, but are otherwise undamaged and available, you could use SET VOLUME ... ACCESS=READWRITE to get them back. - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Adeel Mehmood Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 2:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company.
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
Dear Margaret , Below is FYI The tapes are getting unavailable in huge numbers , we make them available but they become unavailable . and its going into a loop now and resulting in running out of scratch tapes! Thanks best regards, Adeel Mehmood -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Clark, Margaret Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 6:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes If your tapes have been marked UNAVAILABLE because they were temporarily unavailable to TSM for whatever reason, but are otherwise undamaged and available, you could use SET VOLUME ... ACCESS=READWRITE to get them back. - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Adeel Mehmood Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 2:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company.
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
Hi, check if your drives need cleaning. Dirty drives are the cause of unavailable tapes. brgds Wojtek -- Wojciech Zukowski Gdansk, PL W dniu 08.07.2013 18:03, Adeel Mehmood pisze: Dear Margaret , Below is FYI The tapes are getting unavailable in huge numbers , we make them available but they become unavailable . and its going into a loop now and resulting in running out of scratch tapes! Thanks best regards, Adeel Mehmood -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Clark, Margaret Sent: Monday, July 8, 2013 6:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes If your tapes have been marked UNAVAILABLE because they were temporarily unavailable to TSM for whatever reason, but are otherwise undamaged and available, you could use SET VOLUME ... ACCESS=READWRITE to get them back. - Margaret -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Adeel Mehmood Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 2:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company.
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
Hi It is most useful if you state which version of TSM server you are running. The OS it runs on and the tape media (LTO3/4/5 etc) would be helpful What retention policies are in place for the domain copygroups? If NOLIMIT is in force, then data will never expire and will eventually use all of your tapes When you say tapes are becoming 'unavailable', is this the status of the volume within TSM? (Do a 'q vol f=d' to check). If so, this is often because you are trying to use tapes that have been physically removed from the library. If TSM wants to use that tape, it will eventually place the tape in an 'UNAVAILABLE' state because it cannot mount the volume in the library as a result of being removed. In terms of running low on scratch, as the previous poster said, make sure expiration and reclaim is running. In particular, make sure reclaim is running and actually completing. The SUMMARY table will report on expiration and reclaim activity over a period of time (usually 28 days) Establish the percent-reclaimable space of your tape volumes. Use this command: SELECT VOLUME_NAME, STGPOOL_NAME, PCT_RECLAIM, STATUS FROM VOLUMES WHERE VOLUME_NAME LIKE '%L3' (This is assuming you are using LTO3 tape. Change accordingly) How many versions of database backups do you retain? These are common causes of tape problems. On 8 July 2013 10:13, Adeel Mehmood ad.mehm...@diyarme.com wrote: Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company.
query archive returns nothing
I was wondering if perhaps this makes sense to anyone. While logged on as a user, not root, an archive is run. dsmc archive /var/log/test/* with -deletefiles. archive ran, shows 8 files archived and 5 files deleted. dsmc q archive /var/log/test/* -subdir yes, dsmc q archive /var/log/test, dsmc q archive /var/log/test -subdir=yes all return ANS1092W No files matching search criteria were found. So the question: Is it possible a user could archive files and not see anything with the query? Is it possible I have a client level problem, which I'm trying to research now. what else am I missing? I have asked them to log in as root and do the query but won't get a response till tomorrow so I thought I'd see I got any hits here. Thank You Geoff Gill
Re: query archive returns nothing
Geoff, Let's try with a trailing /or putting quotes around your file specification. Be careful with the shell interpreting the star and not the TSM Client. I think that a user who archives files becomes the owner of the archives and should be able to queriy them. Erwann Geoff Gill avalnch...@yahoo.com a écrit : I was wondering if perhaps this makes sense to anyone. While logged on as a user, not root, an archive is run. dsmc archive /var/log/test/* with -deletefiles. archive ran, shows 8 files archived and 5 files deleted. dsmc q archive /var/log/test/* -subdir yes, dsmc q archive /var/log/test, dsmc q archive /var/log/test -subdir=yes all return ANS1092W No files matching search criteria were found. So the question: Is it possible a user could archive files and not see anything with the query? Is it possible I have a client level problem, which I'm trying to research now. what else am I missing? I have asked them to log in as root and do the query but won't get a response till tomorrow so I thought I'd see I got any hits here. Thank You Geoff Gill -- Envoyé de mon téléphone Android avec K-9 Mail. Excusez la brièveté.
TSM for SAP w/Oracle RMAN
TSM 6.3.3 on Windows (server), TDP for SAP on Oracle 6.4, TSM client 6.4.0.0 on Linux. The Oracle DBs are compressed. OK, I'm just the back-end server support. No speakum SAP. DBA did the support to set up SAP/TDP with RMAN, I'm pretty clueless. Backups have been running beautifully, for months. Then he left, alas. Now a new different DBA is trying to get restores to run and they are slow as dirt. One obvious problem is that on backups 2 sessions run in parallel, which back up in 4 total sessions as viewed from the server side. Upon the restore they are running one at a time. I know where to find the api/bin64 directory with the appropriate dsm.sys, and I know where to find the /oracle/SID/112_64/dbs directory and look at the initSID.utl file. That file has maxsessions 2 in it. Where else should I look to see why the restore is only starting 1 session at a time? Is that something controlled via BRtools or RMAN? W Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.com ICF International | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135 (o)
Re: FW: [ADSM-L] Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space?
According to this: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21641914myns=swgtivmynp=OCSS8TDQmync=E TSM4VE backs up the whole disk. And that's been my experience. Steve STEPHEN STACKWICK | Senior Consultant | 301.518.6352 (m) | stephen.stackw...@icfi.com | icfi.com ICF INTERNATIONAL | 410 E. Pratt Street Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135 (o) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Ouzen Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 8:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] FW: [ADSM-L] Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space? Hi Wanda No quite sure at least in Vsphere 5 (maybe Vsphere 5.1) , I always check with the command: dsmc show VM all and the parameter : changeTracking: Off About the first backup will take only the USED space , at least in my environment some machines works fine but some others backup the ALL space !!! Best Regards Robert -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 3:47 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space? If your VM's were created in VSphere 5, CBT will be on by default. My understanding is that either way (starting with CBT on or off), you should only get USED space on the first backup. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael Roesch Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 4:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Should CBT be enabled before using TSM for VE to save space? Hi there, I've read here http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21608413 that TSM for VE is using content-aware backup, if CBT is enabled. It also says that TSM for VE will enable CBT after the first backup. So I'm wondering if enabling CBT before performing the first backup would make TSM for VE backup only the used blocks (i.e. used space) and hence would save space on the storage pool? Or would TSM for VE still backup the full VMDK, including possible lots of unused space inside it on the first backup? Regards, Michael
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
You should use the Q ACTLOG command with a begintime and begindate just before a bunch of tapes were marked unavailable to see more information about why this is happening. Though you are searching for a needle in a hay stack you may be able to narrow it down with the SEARCH option on the Q ACTLOG command. For instance, search on the volume name of a tape that you know got marked unavailable during that time period. You could also search on UNAVAILABLE. The error messages giving the reasons are in the ACTLOG, though finding them may take some searching. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu == You will finish your project ahead of schedule. === = (Best fortune-cookie fortune ever.) == On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, white jeff wrote: Hi It is most useful if you state which version of TSM server you are running. The OS it runs on and the tape media (LTO3/4/5 etc) would be helpful What retention policies are in place for the domain copygroups? If NOLIMIT is in force, then data will never expire and will eventually use all of your tapes When you say tapes are becoming 'unavailable', is this the status of the volume within TSM? (Do a 'q vol f=d' to check). If so, this is often because you are trying to use tapes that have been physically removed from the library. If TSM wants to use that tape, it will eventually place the tape in an 'UNAVAILABLE' state because it cannot mount the volume in the library as a result of being removed. In terms of running low on scratch, as the previous poster said, make sure expiration and reclaim is running. In particular, make sure reclaim is running and actually completing. The SUMMARY table will report on expiration and reclaim activity over a period of time (usually 28 days) Establish the percent-reclaimable space of your tape volumes. Use this command: SELECT VOLUME_NAME, STGPOOL_NAME, PCT_RECLAIM, STATUS FROM VOLUMES WHERE VOLUME_NAME LIKE '%L3' (This is assuming you are using LTO3 tape. Change accordingly) How many versions of database backups do you retain? These are common causes of tape problems. On 8 July 2013 10:13, Adeel Mehmood ad.mehm...@diyarme.com wrote: Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company.
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
Dear , Thanks for your response . please find the answers below . It is most useful if you state which version of TSM server you are running. -- TSM 6.2 The OS it runs on and the tape media (LTO3/4/5 etc.) would be helpful Windows 2008 Server , configured with SL3000 Library through ACSLS Software having 14 x HP LTO4 FC Tape Drives. What retention policies are in place for the domain copy groups? If NOLIMIT is in force, then data will never expire and will eventually use all of your tapes Retention Polices seems to be working fine as they are In place for more than two years half years and we started facing this problem couple of weeks back . When you say tapes are becoming 'unavailable', is this the status of the volume within TSM? (Do a 'q vol f=d' to check). If so, this is often because you are trying to use tapes that have been physically removed from the library. If TSM wants to use that tape, it will eventually place the tape in an 'UNAVAILABLE' state because it cannot mount the volume in the library as a result of being removed. - we are 100 % sure that the tapes are physically inside .The NEW/OLD tapes become UNAVAILABLE , whenever the TSM try to use them for backup or restore. but once we make them available , we could use them for some time . till they get unavailable again . In terms of running low on scratch, as the previous poster said, make sure expiration and reclaim is running. In particular, make sure reclaim is running and actually completing. The SUMMARY table will report on expiration and reclaim activity over a period of time (usually 28 days) - we double check the same. How many versions of database backups do you retain? -- 14 versions These are common causes of tape problems. -- we are using Brand New Tapes and they are also getting UNAVAILABLE , also we opened a case with Library Vendor and they said all is well . Best regards, Adeel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of white jeff Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 12:17 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Hi It is most useful if you state which version of TSM server you are running. The OS it runs on and the tape media (LTO3/4/5 etc) would be helpful What retention policies are in place for the domain copygroups? If NOLIMIT is in force, then data will never expire and will eventually use all of your tapes When you say tapes are becoming 'unavailable', is this the status of the volume within TSM? (Do a 'q vol f=d' to check). If so, this is often because you are trying to use tapes that have been physically removed from the library. If TSM wants to use that tape, it will eventually place the tape in an 'UNAVAILABLE' state because it cannot mount the volume in the library as a result of being removed. In terms of running low on scratch, as the previous poster said, make sure expiration and reclaim is running. In particular, make sure reclaim is running and actually completing. The SUMMARY table will report on expiration and reclaim activity over a period of time (usually 28 days) Establish the percent-reclaimable space of your tape volumes. Use this command: SELECT VOLUME_NAME, STGPOOL_NAME, PCT_RECLAIM, STATUS FROM VOLUMES WHERE VOLUME_NAME LIKE '%L3' (This is assuming you are using LTO3 tape. Change accordingly) How many versions of database backups do you retain? These are common causes of tape problems. On 8 July 2013 10:13, Adeel Mehmood ad.mehm...@diyarme.commailto:ad.mehm...@diyarme.com wrote: Dears , We are facing problem as the TSM scratch tapes are running out , also the tapes becoming unavailable . Please advise , how to handle this issue . Thanks , Adeel D I S C L A I M E R The information in this email and in any files transmitted with it, is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. Statement and opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and do not necessarily reflect those of the company.
Archive WEB UI not showing available Management classes in windows.
Hello Has anyone seen an issue where the the Java based web client on a windows client does not show anything in the Management class drop down box on the Archive window? Maybe I missing something? Grant
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
Dears , We are receiving below errors and the Scratch tapes goes to ZERO 07/04/2013 22:58:44 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001736 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 32773) 07/04/2013 23:04:23 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000588 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 32799) 07/04/2013 23:04:35 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000482 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 32806) 07/04/2013 23:10:55 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001058 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34240) 07/04/2013 23:11:01 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002081 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34242) 07/04/2013 23:15:49 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000468 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34242) 07/04/2013 23:16:21 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000828 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34240) 07/04/2013 23:20:33 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002284 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34242) 07/04/2013 23:21:13 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002084 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34240) 07/04/2013 23:26:29 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001367 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34255) 07/04/2013 23:28:24 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000386 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34215) 07/04/2013 23:36:08 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001804 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34215) 07/04/2013 23:37:04 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002323 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34255) 07/04/2013 23:44:47 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001814 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34255) 07/04/2013 23:45:05 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002535 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 24769) Thanks best regards, Adeel Mehmood From: Adeel Mehmood Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Dear , Thanks for your response . please find the answers below . It is most useful if you state which version of TSM server you are running. -- TSM 6.2 The OS it runs on and the tape media (LTO3/4/5 etc.) would be helpful Windows 2008 Server , configured with SL3000 Library through ACSLS Software having 14 x HP LTO4 FC Tape Drives. What retention policies are in place for the domain copy groups? If NOLIMIT is in force, then data will never expire and will eventually use all of your tapes Retention Polices seems to be working fine as they are In place for more than two years half years and we started facing this problem couple of weeks back . When you say tapes are becoming 'unavailable', is this the status of the volume within TSM? (Do a 'q vol f=d' to check). If so, this is often because you are trying to use tapes that have been physically removed from the library. If TSM wants to use that tape, it will eventually place the tape in an 'UNAVAILABLE' state because it cannot mount the volume in the library as a result of being removed. - we are 100 % sure that the tapes are physically inside .The NEW/OLD tapes become UNAVAILABLE , whenever the TSM try to use them for backup or restore. but once we make them available , we could use them for some time . till they get unavailable again . In terms of running low on scratch, as the previous poster said, make sure expiration and reclaim is running. In particular, make sure reclaim is running and actually completing. The SUMMARY table will report on expiration and reclaim activity over a period of time (usually 28 days) - we double check the same. How many versions of database backups do you retain? -- 14 versions These are common causes of tape problems. -- we are using Brand New Tapes and they are also getting UNAVAILABLE , also we opened a case with Library Vendor and they said all is well . Best regards, Adeel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of white jeff Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 12:17 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDUmailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Hi It is most useful if you state which version of TSM server you are running. The OS it runs on and the tape media (LTO3/4/5 etc) would be helpful What retention policies are in place for the domain copygroups? If NOLIMIT is in force,
