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Re: Any one else just get unsolicited commercial email today?
Yes. But one time back when I did ask for some product info from this company. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 12:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Any one else just get unsolicited commercial email today? Got something from (Sales VP for company selling add-ons for TSM) today.
Restore syntax
I have a directory I need to restore as of a given date on an AIX system but I need to restore it to a different system and different directory. Can someone please help me with the syntax? /usr/bin/dsmc -user=administrator -pass=administratorpassword restore -pitdate=05/16/2005 -subdir=yes /usr/data/files/* /usr/restorearea/ I know I am missing the system names in there... what else? TIA ... jack
Re: Multiple TSM servers and their databases
If not clustered, they have separate databases and configured separately. One owns the library to the extent that it controls the robot. At least that is my understanding. I haven't done it. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Evans Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:04 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Multiple TSM servers and their databases Hi all Quick question, which I know is in the manuals somewhere, but I need a quick answer and don't have time to look just now, so was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.. If I deployed multiple TSM servers all sharing the same Library, do they all have their own independent databases, or can they be configured with one as a master and the others all linked in somehow? I'm presuming that they are all independent and that data can only be moved between them via some move media or export / import function. Would that be a correct assumption? Many thanks in advance.. Jon Evans Storage Consultant KBR
LTO-1 speeds
Is there a doc somewhere that I should go through to ensure that I am getting all the performance I can from my LTO-1 SCSI attached tape drives? I am on windows 2003 as a server, attached with dual port PCI SCSI cards. TSM 4.2.3.1 Thanks ... JC
Re: diskpool sizing formula ?
IMHO, minimum disk pool size is 3 to 5 times the daily change rate. That is the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM; hopefully you can get lots more than that. If you don't know the daily change rate, try 5% of data volume for normal files. It will probably be closer to 2%. Now extrapolate for the data growth rate and you can get a scary figure quickly :) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Case Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 11:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: diskpool sizing formula ? Need some finding where the formula is for sizing diskpool for nightly backs I know its in one of the manualls but I can not find it. So anyone who know where I would be able to find please let me know. Thanks Justin Case Duke University..
Re: empty storage pool
I love this answer :) ... Yes. It deletes the data from the volume, and the database/catalog entries that point to it, then it deletes the volume from the database/catalog. If it is a disk volume, it must be removed by an external method (like rm /xxx/yyy/zzz.vol ) or some such thing, if I remember right. Now you can create a new volume that will re-use the same space. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giglio, Paul Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:24 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: empty storage pool Is this going to delete the info in the volume or the entire volume. I only want to remove the info in the VOl so I can continue testing -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ochs, Duane Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] empty storage pool Delete vol ## discard=yes For each volume in the storage pool. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giglio, Paul Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: empty storage pool Hello TSmrs Can anybody tell me how to just delete everything out of one storage pool. I am testing backup scenarios and have no need to migrate the info Regards Paul Giglio EMI/CAP Music New York NY - Music from EMI This e-mail including any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received it in error please advise the sender immediately by return email and then delete it from your system. The unauthorised use, distribution, copying or alteration of this email is strictly forbidden. If you need assistance please contact us on +44 20 7795 7000. This email is from a unit or subsidiary of EMI Group plc. Registered Office: 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5SW Registered in England No 229231. - - Music from EMI This e-mail including any attachments is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received it in error please advise the sender immediately by return email and then delete it from your system. The unauthorised use, distribution, copying or alteration of this email is strictly forbidden. If you need assistance please contact us on +44 20 7795 7000. This email is from a unit or subsidiary of EMI Group plc. Registered Office: 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5SW Registered in England No 229231. -
Re: restore windows files to mac
My understanding is that restores must be done to 'similar file systems'. Basically any UNIX type system can restore to any other UNIX like file system, Windows to Windows too. Crossing architectures is problematic. You might try using a tar type program to tar, ftp, then un-tar. Does that keep your date/time stamps?
Exchange 2003 restore to another server. HELP!
I am using the TDP for Exchange GUI, and restoring to a similar leveled version of Exchange on the same base OS. I get the following manual from the client: 04/25/2005 17:57:03 ACN5798E MS Exchange API HRESERESTOREADDDATABASE() failed with HRESULT: 0xc7fe1f42 - Database not found. 04/25/2005 17:57:03 Total backups inspected: 1 From the error logs on the Exchange server, I get the impression that I am not restoring to the correct Exchange database. How can I restore one exchange server (or portions) to another server? If my answer is RTFM, that is OK, please let me know which Fine Manual to read and where! ... TIA Jack
Re: TSM causing client disk contention
Paul, Yes, We've noticed this. Our solutions: * Start backups when users have supposedly gone home. * Don't do 'hot backups'. Have the application export its own backup to a flat file (preferably on another file system), then backup up the flat file. * Just backup what you MUST daily, then do another schedule to pick up the 'other stuff' on weekends. (Like, pick up user home directories and data directories daily, backup the OS and software weekly, since I changes little. This keeps down the time to query the database about whether or not something has been backed up. * Use journaling locally (we have issues with it, but when it works it helps) These hints don't make all problems disappear, but they help. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:37 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM causing client disk contention We have a couple of clients here (Sun, Windows) who have noticed dramatic slowdowns on their application servers when TSM incremental backups run. Has anyone developed mechanisms to address this? TIA
Exchange restore failing
Ok, I am a little lost. We did restores of Exchange 5.5 Ok. Now I need to restore an Exchange 2003 mail store to a different exchange 2003 server. Does anyone have a cookbook (or even a nice way to say RTFM and I will be glad to read the fine manual, but what I have read sofar, leaves me cold.) I put the restore - from server name in the dsm.opt in the TDP for Exchange directory, and start up the restore client (5.1). It allows me to select what I want, and then I get a message with the ACN5798E. It says, go check the Windows Event Logs. In the windows event logs, I get: Failed to find database to restore the Microsoft Active Directory Storage Group specified in the backup media is (lots of hex digits). Database specified is backup media is Users G-L, error is 0xc7fe1f42 ... To check that I go to the Microsoft web side (it has event id 9635 for Exchange. This gives the same message text. Any help is appreciated. I am sure I am just not seeing it. ... Jack
Reserved tape drives
TSM server 4.1.3 on Windows 2K, 6 LTO-1 SCSI attached with IBM3583 library. We have occasionally some drives that show up as 'Reserved'. No particular drive either. Once I have seen it clear that status on its own, but a couple of times we have had to stop and restart the TSM server to get it to work again. Suggestions to explain what happens? Or, even better, how to keep it from happening? Thanks ... Jack
Tape volume is empty but not
How do I empty a tape volume when: Q content volumeID Shows no content Q vol volumeID Shows 0.0 percent full MOVE DATA volumeID Says volume contains no data Delete vol volumeID Says volume still contains data I am guessing that this is a volume where a large file was written to a previous volume, and it 'overflowed' onto this one. How do I find the predecessor volume?
SUMMARY: Tape volume is empty but not
Doug, You got it! ... It showed a volume needed to do the audit! ... Thanks -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thorneycroft, Doug Try running an audit volume Doug Thorneycroft Systems Analyst Computer Technology Section County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Coats, Jack How do I empty a tape volume when: Q content volumeID Shows no content Q vol volumeID Shows 0.0 percent full MOVE DATA volumeID Says volume contains no data Delete vol volumeID Says volume still contains data I am guessing that this is a volume where a large file was written to a previous volume, and it 'overflowed' onto this one. How do I find the predecessor volume?
Re: how to redirect output in tsm to a file
Liu, Andrew is right. There is no way I have found to redirect anything using the GUI interface to a file. When I really need a file of the results (in my windows environment) build a batch file, and make sure and pipe the results to text files, or the dsmc command usually allows a -outfile: option or something similar. Check out the dsmc command line options for the details. ... Jack -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Meadows, Andrew If you are on the command line you can do a and redirect whichever you choose. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Liu, Haifeng Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 8:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: how to redirect output in tsm to a file Hello, experts, how to redirect output in tsm to a file? Just like in aix, use to redirect output, in tsm ,can I ?
TSM Certification
Where can I find the certification requirements for TSM? Are there some study guides available? I've been doing this several years now, and folks still seem to want certifications, so I guess I need to break down and get certified. Any suggestions or comments?
DR Restore
I am using DRM, with Windows 2000 Server, TSM 4.3, Library is IBM3583-L16 with 6 LTO-1 drives, 60 slots, and 12 slot door. I run the script to rebuild the DB and logs, and all goes well. When I issue the command to actually restore the database, I get an IO error on the library. I modified the devconfig so it shows the dbb tape (single tape) is in slot 4095 (1C1), and retried the restore, with the same results. Do I have to re-define/format the DB and log files between each try? (Doesn't seem reasonable to me, but I am grasping at straws here.) Suggestions?
SUMMARY: DR Restore
The DB Restore is running now. I did figure it out before I received this response, and this was the issue. I put the correct slot number in the device config file and it worked. I thought I had done that before, but starting over sometimes helps. Thanks to Sue Lee and Richard Sims for their responses! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sung Y Lee Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 2:31 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: DR Restore Hello, The slot # seems high for 3583.. not sure if this is normal for Windows.. Have you double checked the correct slot # for the database tape. Also I would check from OS that you can query the smc0 device and tape drive devices. Sung Y. Lee ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/14/2005 03:02:29 PM: I am using DRM, with Windows 2000 Server, TSM 4.3, Library is IBM3583-L16 with 6 LTO-1 drives, 60 slots, and 12 slot door. I run the script to rebuild the DB and logs, and all goes well. When I issue the command to actually restore the database, I get an IO error on the library. I modified the devconfig so it shows the dbb tape (single tape) is in slot 4095 (1C1), and retried the restore, with the same results. Do I have to re-define/format the DB and log files between each try? (Doesn't seem reasonable to me, but I am grasping at straws here.) Suggestions?
Re: TSM 5.3 install
I want to download 5.3, but lost my link to the FTP site. Could I bother someone to help me refresh my linklist? ... TIA, Jack
Re: Does an inactive client need a licence
I thought that it was interesting too, that when I asked our Tivoli rep and he bounced it up to licensing, the person there said: if you use Intel Hyper-Threading, Windows reports having two processors even though there is only one physical processor, and it is licensed as a single (1) processor. ... That helps some in our shop. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TSM_User Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Does an inactive client need a licence John, I would contact your local Tivoli rep and pose this question to them. Tivoli for a while now has been processor based for licensing. So if you no longer have the TSM client installed and running on those servers then it doesn't make sense that you should be paying maintenance or anything for that matter for those nodes. This is one of the reasons why they did away with the current license tracking in TSM at V5.3. Another interesting point. If you were using something like VMWare and had 4 clients on one physical dual processor server you would pay for a single 2 processor license. Even though you have 4 installations of the TSM client. This can have a negative effect as well. If you have 4 VM's on an 8 way and want to purchase the TDP for SQL for just one of the VM's you still have to pay for the 8 process license of the TDP. Of course pricing can be different from customer to customer and location to location so really only your local Tivoli rep can tell you exactly what you are required to do. Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John! TSM's license counter starts counting as soon as a client starts backing up. A license is not returned until all the client's data has been removed from the server. So, as long as the inactive clients are storing data on your TSM server (no matter how old), you are using a license... Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: John Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:08 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Does an inactive client need a licence People, My question is I have just run audit licence and it shows as audited the number of registered clients However a number of registered clients have not backed up for a few months. My question is do these inactive clients need a licence Does anyone know IBM's official take on this. thanks., John ** The information in this E-Mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It may not represent the views of Scottish and Southern Energy Group. It is intended solely for the addressees. Access to this E-Mail by anyone else is unauthorised. 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 prohibited and may be unlawful. Any unauthorised recipient should advise the sender immediately of the error in transmission. Unless specifically stated otherwise, this email (or any attachments to it) is not an offer capable of acceptance or acceptance of an offer and it does not form part of a binding contractual agreement. Scottish Hydro-Electric, Southern Electric, SWALEC and S+S are trading names of the Scottish and Southern Energy Group. ** ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. ** - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'
How to get a tape drive to stream?
But does someone have a pointer to some 'tips tricks' or FAQ to help me get these LTO tape drives streaming with TSM on Windows 2000? The drives seem to be doing about 3MB/sec per drive, no matter what is going on in the server. This is about the right speed for stop/start programmed I/O processing. My config is TSM 4.3 on Windows 2K server (2 1.2G Xenon, 1G RAM) My SCSI attached LTO-1 drives are on Adaptec controllers (IBM branded), with two tape drives per controller. I have 3 identical SCSI controllers with two drives each (one also has my 3583 library on it). Disks (6 72G 10K drives, in two partitions) are attached to one RAID card, and are RAID 5. I can't get just running a single tape drive streaming, with nothing going on in my system (db backup only, no backups, no reclamation, no expiration, etc) Any advice/suggestions are appreciated. ... ... Desperate in Houston ... JC
Re: How to get a tape drive to stream?
Karel Bos Paul Banes, Thanks for the response! I will look into the 'correct' drivers and level of drivers as an issue. We did have to 'de-rate' the 160MB/sec controller to a 80MB/sec to get it to work (evidently a LTO problem working with SCSI communications at a higher rate). This was done with help from IBM support. (This is done in the controllers 'BIOS'.) Even at the 80MB/sec rate it should be more than enough to support two LTO drives. I even varied one of the drives offline on each controller, and got the same throughput rates. How do I know the speed? Just from observation. The amount of data in MB in a storage pool times its percent full, get a single tape backup started from that disk pool to tape. Wait till a decimal portion of the percentage full changes, log that time. Wait for an hour or so, then again check for the decimal portion of the percentage change. Calculate the number of MB that it represents, and divide by the time to get the rate. And I have done the similar thing for a database backup from start to end. It is a time consuming and manual process. I have also tried the storage pool comparison with multiple tape streams, and the rate per drive per unit of time is still consistent. In the past, I have checked the CPU and memory loads. The CPU is loafing, and memory does not seem to be taxed. The only disk issue I have seen is when doing some disk intensive work the i/o queueing to disk goes through the roof. (I am trying to get more spindles to help with this.) I only have TSM drivers installed on this box for the LTO drives. But I may have to do that. ... Jack -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bos, Karel Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 10:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: How to get a tape drive to stream? Hi, First of all, I remember some issues with Adaptec cards, LTO drives and performance problems. If I recall correctly you have the install the correct driver version of some Adaptec cards from a fresh installation of Win2K to not get hit by that problem. Then, I can't get, what process are you running to check the performance of the drives. You have your DB, logs and diskpool volumes all on RAID5 sets. If you are running test, do you have some performance counters running on this like memory / cpu / disk IO? Some test to see if the TSM server is the bottle neck could be things like directly writing a large file to tape (from outside TSM). Last, but not least. Why version 4.3? Regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: woensdag 26 januari 2005 17:16 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: How to get a tape drive to stream? But does someone have a pointer to some 'tips tricks' or FAQ to help me get these LTO tape drives streaming with TSM on Windows 2000? The drives seem to be doing about 3MB/sec per drive, no matter what is going on in the server. This is about the right speed for stop/start programmed I/O processing. My config is TSM 4.3 on Windows 2K server (2 1.2G Xenon, 1G RAM) My SCSI attached LTO-1 drives are on Adaptec controllers (IBM branded), with two tape drives per controller. I have 3 identical SCSI controllers with two drives each (one also has my 3583 library on it). Disks (6 72G 10K drives, in two partitions) are attached to one RAID card, and are RAID 5. I can't get just running a single tape drive streaming, with nothing going on in my system (db backup only, no backups, no reclamation, no expiration, etc) Any advice/suggestions are appreciated. ... ... Desperate in Houston ... JC
Re: Why do database restores take so long?
I did a restore of our database last Monday. It took about 5.5 hours for 60G with nothing else running on the server, with an LTO-1 tape drive, SCSI attached, to our IBM 3583 library. This is in a Windows2000 environment, but even at that, this is VERY slow. The daily full backup of the database seems to take the same amount of time. I would like for the database restore to be faster, but the backup is a problem too. I would like to know how to make a database backup to a remote DISK drive (or a TSM-DR system) and how to restore the database on that system from that disk drive file! (Pointers to admin docs would be fine! :) ) -Original Message- From: Tab Trepagnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 5:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Why do database restores take so long? Dave, Our database disk system consists of four 18 GB SCSI disks in a split (dual-bus) disk pod connected to a dual-channel LVDS adapter. The Recovery Log in on another pair of such disks. One set of disks on one bus holds the primary database and log volumes; two DB and one log disk. Each DB/log volume is mirrored to an identical volume/disk on the other bus. So the mirror read/writes occur on independent buses downstream of the PCI slot. The database consists of four volumes per disk of about 4 GB each. All database and log volumes are defined on JFS2 file systems. The LVDS adapter is the IBM 64-bit dual-channel adapter called PCI DUAL CHANNEL ULTRA3 SCSI ADAPTER, Part Number 09P2544. The disks are 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive (18200 MB), Machine Type and Model = ST318305LC which I *think* is 15K rpm. The server is a 2-way 6H1 64-bit 600 MHz with 4 GB RAM, tuned for just about zero paging. TSM DB buffer pool is 1 GB. Like I said, when backing up to our HP 4/40 DLT via HVD SCSI, topas reports a consistent 11 MB/s, such that a typical backup takes just about 45-50 minutes including the tape mount. The restore took slightly over three hours; and the 3:1 ratio is not out of line based on other responses. Thanks. Tab ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 01/20/2005 11:27:02 PM: Can you provide a little more information? I would like to know: 1. What kind of disk subsystem are you restoring the data to? 2. How many disks, and what kind of disks are they? 3. How is the database laid out database volume wise? 4. Does the disk have write cache behind it? 5. What kind of controller do you have for the disk subsystem? At 07:23 PM 1/20/2005 -0600, you wrote: TSM 5.1.9.0 on AIX 5.2 ML4; DLT8000 media on SCSI Why do TSM database restores take so much longer than the backups? Our system backs up our 24 GB database to DLT in about 50 minutes with a sustained rate of 11 MB/s reported by topas. Tonight I'm performing a database restore. It is occurring at an average rate of less than 1 MB/s with rare peaks no higher than 6 MBs. At times the rate is as low as 300 KB/s. I realize the system is writing data to disk rather than reading so its not doing as much caching, but these are new disks and I've seen them stream write at better than 25 MB/s on the inner edge and as fast as 50 MB/s on the outer edge. So I doubt the disk is the problem. This restore has been running for almost 2-1/2 hours now and is about 90% complete. This is the fourth or fifth time I've restored the TSM database in the seven years I've operated the system. I have never seen database restores exceed 1/3 the backup rate - sustained - on two different servers, three different media and going back to ADSM 3.1. Just curious. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram, L.L.C. Dave Canan TSM Performance IBM Advanced Technical Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Server Down
I have an old 4.2.3.1 TSM server on Windows 2000 It stopped running this morning/last night. There is nothing in the event logs. I try to start the server service, and it runs for a few minutes, then goes away. How can I turn on event logging? Does anyone have a URL to the Windows TSM Admin guide for 4.2? TIA ... Jack Desparation
Re: Server Down
Curtis, Thank you for reminding me to run the server from the command line. The error message during log processin at the end is: ANRD pkthread.c(791): ThreadId0 Run-time assertion failed: CmpLsn( *pageLsnP, hdrP-updtLsn ) != LESSTHAN, Thread 0, File dblog.c, Line 1061. Has anyone seen a similar problem or have a suggestion at to where to go next? Log from command line console session: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\TSMcd \program files\tivoli\tsm\server1 C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server1ls DBPGSHDW.BDT dsmaccnt-20030709.log initserv.bat DSMSERV.OPTdsmaccnt-20031103.log initserv.log NODELOCK dsmaccnt-20050117.log tsm1.dat dsmaccnt-20030223.log dsmserv.dsk C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server1..\server\dsmserv.exe ANR0900I Processing options file D:\tsmdata\server1\dsmserv.opt. ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 09:49:53 on Nov 9 2002. Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Version 4, Release 2, Level 3.1 * This is a server service PATCH based on certified service* * level 4.2.3.0 and has not been fully tested. Fixes were * * made for the following items:* * IC34939 Node 'Maximum Mount Points Allowed' attrib not honord * * IC34386 DISK TO TAPE RECLAMATION PERFORMANCE PROBLEM * * IC34785 DSMSNMP NEEDS TO BE LINKED TO NEW VERSION OF LIBDPI20 * * PQ67526 PERFORMANCE MEMORY LEAK X'3C' BYTES ADDWRDISKTOTXN * * IC34920 THE DRM QRPFC NODENAME=NODENAME COMMAND COULD CAUSE * * PQ67342 PERFORMANCE MEMORY LEAK ADMINISTRATOR SESSIONS * * PQ67352 PERFORMANCE MEMORY LEAK ADMINISTRATOR SESSIONS * Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5698-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1999,2001. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress. ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 13312 megabytes. ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 24520 megabytes. ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress. ANR0287W Contents of the page shadow file DBPGSHDW.BDT are not valid. ANR0285I Database page shadowing started using file DBPGSHDW.BDT. ANR0353I Recovery log analysis pass in progress. ANR0354I Recovery log redo pass in progress. ANR0355I Recovery log undo pass in progress. ANRD pkthread.c(791): ThreadId0 Run-time assertion failed: CmpLsn( *pageLsnP, hdrP-updtLsn ) != LESSTHAN, Thread 0, File dblog.c, Line 1061. C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server1
Re: Getting TSM to show the l1 or l2 suffix on tape names
Also, in the setup section of your 3583, you must tell it to use 'extended' or 'enhanced' label or barcode checking. Sorry I don't remember where or exactly what, but I do remember we had to set that on our 3583. We set ours up 'wrong' after an upgrade, and had to change it and re-inventory our library afterward to get TSM to recognize the tapes 'correctly'. -Original Message- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Getting TSM to show the l1 or l2 suffix on tape names Just remember if you change this you will have to re-label all your TSM tapes. This setting effects the barcode reported to TSM...and that's what TSM uses to label the tapes. If you change this setting any/all existing TSM tapes will be unavailable to you unless you change your checkin to CHECKL=YES. This will cause TSM to ignore the barcode and read the internal label. Bill Boyer Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield. - ?? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stapleton, Mark Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Getting TSM to show the l1 or l2 suffix on tape names [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/13/2005 12:50:12 PM Can anyone advise me on how to get TSM to show the LTO version, ie: l1 or l2 on the end of tape names. I've seen it somewhere on the TSM website but can't find it now :( Cheers From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Longo I seem to recall there is a setting on the LTO library itself as to whether it passes the suffix as part of the label name to external apps. Assuming that this is an IBM 3583 library (please, please send details when describing a problem): There is a setting on the library front panel to set the tape volume display mode to NORMAL (no L1 or L2 tags) or EXTENDED. I can't remember where it is; you're best off digging up your manual and reading it. -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Berbee Information Networks Office 262.521.5627
Re: Server Down
I just ordered tapes from IronMountain ... Just the way I wanted to spend another company holiday. ... Last time this happened it was new years 2004. Thanks for confirming my idea of what needs to be done. .. Jack -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Server Down I strongly suspect that you will have to restore your TSM server database. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 01/17/2005 08:24:19: Curtis, Thank you for reminding me to run the server from the command line. The error message during log processin at the end is: ANRD pkthread.c(791): ThreadId0 Run-time assertion failed: CmpLsn( *pageLsnP, hdrP-updtLsn ) != LESSTHAN, Thread 0, File dblog.c, Line 1061. Has anyone seen a similar problem or have a suggestion at to where to go next? Log from command line console session: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\TSMcd \program files\tivoli\tsm\server1 C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server1ls DBPGSHDW.BDT dsmaccnt-20030709.log initserv.bat DSMSERV.OPTdsmaccnt-20031103.log initserv.log NODELOCK dsmaccnt-20050117.log tsm1.dat dsmaccnt-20030223.log dsmserv.dsk C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server1..\server\dsmserv.exe ANR0900I Processing options file D:\tsmdata\server1\dsmserv.opt. ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 09:49:53 on Nov 9 2002. Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Version 4, Release 2, Level 3.1 * This is a server service PATCH based on certified service* * level 4.2.3.0 and has not been fully tested. Fixes were * * made for the following items:* * IC34939 Node 'Maximum Mount Points Allowed' attrib not honord * * IC34386 DISK TO TAPE RECLAMATION PERFORMANCE PROBLEM * * IC34785 DSMSNMP NEEDS TO BE LINKED TO NEW VERSION OF LIBDPI20 * * PQ67526 PERFORMANCE MEMORY LEAK X'3C' BYTES ADDWRDISKTOTXN * * IC34920 THE DRM QRPFC NODENAME=NODENAME COMMAND COULD CAUSE * * PQ67342 PERFORMANCE MEMORY LEAK ADMINISTRATOR SESSIONS * * PQ67352 PERFORMANCE MEMORY LEAK ADMINISTRATOR SESSIONS * Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5698-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1999,2001. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress. ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 13312 megabytes. ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 24520 megabytes. ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress. ANR0287W Contents of the page shadow file DBPGSHDW.BDT are not valid. ANR0285I Database page shadowing started using file DBPGSHDW.BDT. ANR0353I Recovery log analysis pass in progress. ANR0354I Recovery log redo pass in progress. ANR0355I Recovery log undo pass in progress. ANRD pkthread.c(791): ThreadId0 Run-time assertion failed: CmpLsn( *pageLsnP, hdrP-updtLsn ) != LESSTHAN, Thread 0, File dblog.c, Line 1061. C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server1
Re: Monitoring lifecycle of tapes in a 3494 library?
I would like to know how also. I have not found a way with DRM, or in native TSM. This is because when a tape is made 'scratch', it looses all the related information about the tape. I would like to keep data so I can know how long it is used (time, and read/write cycles), current read errors, write errors, and high-water marks for both read and write errors. Due to lack of this information, one write error generates an 'opportunity' to retire a tape, even if the tape is new. I re-label the tape if there are any read-error found. To do these, it is a manual process (which I sorely despise, but I have not found a better way). I have a reuse period of 3 days on onsite tapes, so I can review their error stats before they are reused, and when tapes come back onsite, their error stats are checked before they are put back into the scratch pool. I actually put the ones with read errors in one drawer (once they are ready for scratch use), and make sure and re-label them before putting them into my general 'scratch' pool (another drawer). The ones with write errors, are 'evaluated' (I have sent some back to the manufacturer when a whole bunch of an order of 100, like 80 percent, had errors on the first use after labeling), before being disposed of. -Original Message- From: John C Dury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 12:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Monitoring lifecycle of tapes in a 3494 library? We have 2 3494 libraries, one local and one remote, and our auditors would like us to monitor the lifecycle of the tapes in both. I've informed them that, upon several errors, TSM will mark the tape as unavailable and stop using it, but that isn't good enough for them. They want an automated report generated that will show how long the tapes have been in the library and possibly how many errors, read and write, have been detected on each. Anyone have any suggestions on an automated way to do this? Or as automated as possible? Thanks.
Re: Server Down [Summary]
I could not get a good handle on it, so I spent all day doing a DR restore (really got started about noon, DB was restored by 5PM, clients could connect by 6) but most of the clients needed the TSM client Scheduler service (windows) to be restarted on each client. It does seem that my 13G log space was full, and not able to extend further. I am on TSM 4.2 on Windows 2K At least it is working again. Thanks to Andy Raibeck, Richard Simms, and Curtis Stewart for chiming in. When you feel under the gun, compatriots like this help a lot. Now to talk to the boss about the upgrade again... :) ... Jack -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 9:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Server Down I strongly suspect that you will have to restore your TSM server database. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 01/17/2005 08:24:19: Curtis, Thank you for reminding me to run the server from the command line. The error message during log processin at the end is: ANRD pkthread.c(791): ThreadId0 Run-time assertion failed: CmpLsn( *pageLsnP, hdrP-updtLsn ) != LESSTHAN, Thread 0, File dblog.c, Line 1061. Has anyone seen a similar problem or have a suggestion at to where to go next? Log from command line console session: Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\TSMcd \program files\tivoli\tsm\server1 C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server1ls DBPGSHDW.BDT dsmaccnt-20030709.log initserv.bat DSMSERV.OPTdsmaccnt-20031103.log initserv.log NODELOCK dsmaccnt-20050117.log tsm1.dat dsmaccnt-20030223.log dsmserv.dsk C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server1..\server\dsmserv.exe ANR0900I Processing options file D:\tsmdata\server1\dsmserv.opt. ANR7800I DSMSERV generated at 09:49:53 on Nov 9 2002. Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Version 4, Release 2, Level 3.1 * This is a server service PATCH based on certified service* * level 4.2.3.0 and has not been fully tested. Fixes were * * made for the following items:* * IC34939 Node 'Maximum Mount Points Allowed' attrib not honord * * IC34386 DISK TO TAPE RECLAMATION PERFORMANCE PROBLEM * * IC34785 DSMSNMP NEEDS TO BE LINKED TO NEW VERSION OF LIBDPI20 * * PQ67526 PERFORMANCE MEMORY LEAK X'3C' BYTES ADDWRDISKTOTXN * * IC34920 THE DRM QRPFC NODENAME=NODENAME COMMAND COULD CAUSE * * PQ67342 PERFORMANCE MEMORY LEAK ADMINISTRATOR SESSIONS * * PQ67352 PERFORMANCE MEMORY LEAK ADMINISTRATOR SESSIONS * Licensed Materials - Property of IBM 5698-TSM (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1999,2001. All rights reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corporation. ANR0990I Server restart-recovery in progress. ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 13312 megabytes. ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 24520 megabytes. ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress. ANR0287W Contents of the page shadow file DBPGSHDW.BDT are not valid. ANR0285I Database page shadowing started using file DBPGSHDW.BDT. ANR0353I Recovery log analysis pass in progress. ANR0354I Recovery log redo pass in progress. ANR0355I Recovery log undo pass in progress. ANRD pkthread.c(791): ThreadId0 Run-time assertion failed: CmpLsn( *pageLsnP, hdrP-updtLsn ) != LESSTHAN, Thread 0, File dblog.c, Line 1061. C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\server1
Re: TSM server web administration console on win2k
http://servername:1580 or http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1580 ( where the xxx is the server address ) -Original Message- From: Luc Beaudoin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:30 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM server web administration console on win2k Hi all A have a little blank ... I have an error (the page cannot be displayed) in IE when I start the WEB admin console... http://servername or IP:1580/ I have the same setup in my lab and it's working someone have a clue thanks Luc Beaudoin Network Administrator/SAN/TSM Hopital General Juif S.M.B.D. Tel: (514) 340-8222 ext:8254
Re: DNS Lookups
I either enter the hostname and IP into the hosts file or in the dsm.opt file specify the servers IP address rather than a host name. -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 7:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: DNS Lookups I keep getting these messages on my Linux TSM server, which is on a heavily firewalled network. 1/11/2005 8:05:06 PM ANR8218W Unable to resolve address for cobra.mcvh-vcu.edu. From other threads along this topic line, I added DNSLOOKUP NO to the DSMSERV.OPT file, but these messages persist. Yes, there are some issues with the DNS names for these boxes. How do I stop these errors / the TSM server from constantly trying to do DNS lookups ? Especially when it attempts this 100's of times, each generating an error message in my daily logs.
Re: How Many Backup Administrators to Data Backed Up?
We have a much smaller environment, 150 servers, 8TB data, including 2 exchange servers. Mainly windows. One IBM3583 library (6 LTO-1 drives, 60 slots, all SCSI), one tsm server. Library is about half the size we need (in slots and drives). I am supposed to be half time on backup, half time on a dedicated application. Between me and one other person, we put in at least 8 hours per day on backups alone. Some weeks I average 12 hours per day fo 6 days per week. We are budgeted for 4 hours per day, 5 days per week. I hope this helps. -Original Message- From: Barnes, Kenny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 3:46 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: How Many Backup Administrators to Data Backed Up? I don't know of a exact number, but maybe this will help. We recently engaged IBM and other hardware vendors to look at upgrading our environment. We or should I say I, manage 120tb of TSM data in total storage with a database size of 70 gb. Recommendation was 1.5 admins. One server and one library. Kenny Barnes Systems Analyst GmacInsurance 336-770-8280 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hart, Charles Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 2:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: How Many Backup Administrators to Data Backed Up? We are in the midst of our Annual Budget planning and know were are understaffed. The question then is there a Ratio of Backup Data Maintained to number of Backup Administrators? A few of us have googled and Gartnered, and come up with nothing. Has anyone on this list seen such a thing? Thanks in advance! Charles -- Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. --
Journaling and clients hanging
I am using Windows back on a TSM 4.2.1.3 system and need to upgrade. Window on both the server and clients (mainly Win2K and Win2003) I found that the TSM windows client at 5.1.6 causes me various problems when I use the journaling. The biggest problem is it at times hangs the TSM scheduler running on the client so backups are missed. QUESTION: Does anyone know of any improvements on the use of the Journal in newer TSM clients that might help make it run better/not hang the Scheduler? Has anyone else seen this issue with any TSM version? ... TIA ... Jack
Re: Tape Scratch list
TSM does not monitor scratch tapes. If you use DRM, it will help handle recovering offsite tapes that are empty. I keep a drawer of scratch tapes. Whenever a tape is 'pending' (I set 3 days for my onsite tape pool, so I can pull and review any tape errors, and I review tapes coming back from offsite when they are in 'vault retrieve' status - and review them before they are put back in the scratch pool when they come in from off site). If the tapes have no errors, I go ahead and put them into my 'scratch drawer'. If they have write errors, they are discarded, and if they have read errors, I re-label them before putting them in my 'scratch drawer' and put a small mark with a paint pen on the tape. If it comes through with 3 marks or more on it, it is discarded too. I hope this helps. -Original Message- From: Norita binti Hassan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Tape Scratch list Hi, How to produce a daily scratch report so that I can monitor of tapes usage. Thanks Pos Malaysia Berhad is Malaysia's national postal company Visit us online at www.pos.com.my NOTICE This message may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the addressee or authorised to receive this email, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this email. If you have received this email in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Pos Malaysia Berhad takes no responsibility for the contents of this email.
Database Free Space
My database backup (TSM 4.3.1 on Windows 2000) is running VERY slowly. Taking about 4.5 to 5 hours now. LOGS:: Available Assigned Maximum MaximumPage Total Used Pct Max. Space Capacity Extension ReductionSizeUsable Pages Util Pct (MB) (MB) (MB) (MB) (bytes) Pages Util - - - --- - - - - 13,312 11,060 2,252 3,076 4,096 2,830,848 2,042,151 72.1 100.0 DATABASE: Available Assigned Maximum MaximumPage Total Used Pct Max. Space Capacity Extension ReductionSizeUsable Pages Util Pct (MB) (MB) (MB) (MB) (bytes) Pages Util - - - --- - - - - 40,360 23,18417,176 664 4,096 5,935,104 5,517,214 93.0 96.7 Apparently I need to increase log space again, but is there enough free space in the DATABASE? I try to keep the logs no higher than 80%, is there a magic number that could help improve the backups speed?
Re: LTO Media
Graham, I sympathize with your plight of trying to cut expenses. We too started off using only IBM media. Great media, least problems of any I have used. Some of the original tapes we purchased (over 3 years ago) are still in production with no problems. I tried some of many brands. IMHO, they all have problems. The problems seem to be on a manufacturing lot by lot basis, and not by manufacturer. IBM does not make their own media. I forget who it is made by (Imation comes to mind, but that may not be correct). Anyway, we purchased 100 tapes from them. I had a failure rate of over 50% out of the box! (To me a failure is one or more write errors, two or more read errors.) Currently we have found Sony to be the least expensive. And they seem OK. We have tried IBM, Imation, Sony, Fuji, Maxell, and TDK. I understand that there are only about 3 media manufacturers for all magnetic media world wide anymore. And the brands we see all come from those 3 under license from the various brands. The brands have to do with marketing. The difference between the brands seems to come from testing each tape. Since LTO are pre-formatted tapes [someone has to mount and write the timing tracks :) on the physical media] I would guess that is when they are culled for different levels of reliability. Using other than IBM tapes (and possibly with them), it seems that cleaning each drive AT LEAST once per week is imperative, rather than waiting till the drive says it needs cleaning. The IBMs do seem to leave lest 'dust' or residue on the heads. I hope this helps. If you find a 'magic bullet' media source, please let us know! (Super reliable media, Super cheap, Super service) ... Jack -Original Message- From: Graham Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LTO Media Hi, Up to now we've been using IBM branded LTO1 tapes in out 3584 library (AIX server, TSM 5.2.2.5). I've found a reseller who's willing to sell FUJI branded tapes at about 1/2 the cost. Does anyone have any comment on tape manufacturers to avoid (or flock to) for LTO media. Any issues with mixing media from different makers? I'm assuming that there should be no problem here, but you never know ... Thanks, -- Graham Stewart Network and Storage Services Manager, Information Technology Services University of Toronto Library 130 St. George Street Toronto, Ontario[EMAIL PROTECTED] Canada M5S 1A5Phone: 416-978-6337 | Fax: 416-978-1668
Canceling Migrations
Does someone have a script (Unix is ok, Windows is preferred) that can
cancel currently running migrations?
My script doesn't seem to work just right. Any suggestions (or a script
that works for you :-) ) would really help!
Here is my attempt:
@Echo Off
REM c:\SBIB\TSMKillReclaimation.cmd - 20040916 jcoats - based a thread in
the ADSM-L list
REM requires command line e-mail client BLAT to send reprots
set PATH=%PATH%;c:\Progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient
set PDSM=C:\Program Files\Tivoli\tsm\baclient\
set DSMC=dsmadmc.exe -ID=MYTSMADMIN -PASS=XX -OUTFILE=C:\SBIB\TEMP2.TXT
cd \sbib
del /q KillRec.txt
del /q temp.txt
del /q temp2.txt
del /q temp3.txt
del /q temp4.txt
Echo TSM Kill Reclaimation temp.txt
date /t temp.txt
time /t temp.txt
cd %PDSM%
%DSMC% UPDATE STG TAPEDATA REC=100
%DSMC% UPDATE STG COPYPOOL REC=100
%DSMC% select * from processes where PROCESS like '%%Reclamation%%'
cd \sbib
REM save a copy of the reclaimations that are running
echo *** Reclaimations Running *** temp4.txt
type temp2.txt temp4.txt
cd %PDSM%
%DSMC% select PROCESS_NUM from processes where PROCESS like
'%%Reclamation%%'
cd \sbib
copy TEMP2.TXT TEMP3.TXT
for /F eol=A tokens=1* skip=8 %%i in (TEMP3.TXT) do (
%DSMC% KILL PROC %%i
)
copy temp.txt+temp4.txt KillRec.txt
date /t KillRec.txt
time /t KillRec.txt
for /F tokens=2-4 delims=/, %%i in ('Date /t') do (
copy KillRec.txt Logs\KillRec%%k%%i%%j.txt
)
blat KillRec.txt -Subject TSM-KillReclaimation -to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
del /q KillRec.txt
del /q temp.txt
del /q temp2.txt
del /q temp3.txt
del /q temp4.txt
Size of aggrigated files - How can it be controlled?
On my little windows TSM server (with 2G of RAM), I am being killed by 12 to 19 GIGABYTE files. There are some that 'naturally' come from our Exchange servers (4 per day). But there seem to be to many of them for that to be the only source. Knowing my user data, thinking that these are really aggregates seems reasonable to me. Is there a way to control the maximum size of an aggregate? If the group has a better idea, I am always open to suggestions! TIA, Jack
Re: Remote Backups....
Monte, We do about 130 servers, about 40 are single servers at the other end of t1 lines in remote offices. The T1's also carry VOIP for those offices. The daily change rate on some is high, some are low. It does help us when we use the TSM journal option. Especially if you have a high number of files. Build a good exclude list for the applications you know. NOT backing up is a good way to improve the backup performance :) One of my issues is MS Outlook PST files. Or people that leave their OUTLOOK program running, attached to their PST files. Hope that helps. ... Jack
Re: Checkin / Checkout trouble
In worst case, in my shop, we * take down the TSM sever (power it off), * power cycle on the tape library (leave it down for a minute or two after power off) * wait for the library to come back up and online (20 to 30 minutes), * power back on the TSM sever. * do a full audit of the library. It is nasty, but seems to work. -Original Message- From: Mark Strasheim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 7:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Checkin / Checkout trouble Aloha, I told the library to checkout a tape .. which i did, but i didn't reply to the process for 3 weeks ... .But now i couldn't reply to the process. In the meantine i cancel the process ... which didn't work. I took out the tape and check it in again ... but now i have to process, which don't work. Process Process Description Status Number - 192 CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME ANR9793I CHECKOUT LIBVOLUME in library 4560SLXLIB- CANCEL PENDING.\ 219 CHECKIN LIBVOLUME ANR8425I Checking in volumes in search mode in library 4560SLXLIB.\ The process is still pending after 1 week. What can i do, to get ride of that dieing process? The other process did start, as i should. How long will the library ask me to reply for a process? Will it expire? And if, how does I complete the task then. Any ideas? with regards Mark Strasheim -- definitiv! business applications GmbH Co. KG Fresnostrasse 14 - 18 · DE-48159 Münster Tel. +49 (0) 251 21092 - 23 · Fax +49 (0) 251 21092 - 29 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] · http://www.definitiv-ba.de/ http://www.definitiv-ba.de --
INCL/EXCL again - backup just some directories
Yes, again. This is something that never seems to stick correctly in my brain... I have some windows machines, where I do a normal TSM backup weekly. I want to do a backup of just certain directories and their content daily. The directories I want to backup also have sub-directories within them. Should an options file like this do the trick? Do you have other suggestions? This will be a secondary options file for just the daily backup: DOMAIN D: -- every thing I want today is on the D Drive. ExcludeD:*.* Include D:\APPS Include D:\GROUP Include D:\HOME The options for the WEEKEND backup would have DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL Exclude.dirD:\APPS Exclude.dirD:\GROUP Exclude.dirD:\HOME ... Setting up the TSM scheduler is now an issue. I need a separate schedule for the weekly and the daily backups, but I want it to use the TSM scheduler, so I seem to need separate client names for each. Is this correct? TIA for your time and suggestions. ... JC
Re: reclamation question
Both full and filling are being reclaimed. I have found that because I have local tapes with errors on them, to reclaim some of my offsite copypool tapes, I pull in the copypool tapes that 'will not finish reclaiming' (less than 3% or so), check them in, and do a 'move data' on them. They turn into PENDING once the data has been moved. I send them offsite again, until they are 'EMPTY'. Doing this simi-regularly has recovered many tapes. -Original Message- From: Levi, Ralph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: reclamation question Hi all, It appears my offsite non-collocated tape pool has more filling tapes than it has in the past. Does anyone know if tapes in a status of filling are being reclaimed or are only tapes in full status put in the reclamation process? I run reclamation with a threshold of 70 and there are certainly tapes there with less than 30% utilization. I am running TSM 5.1.9 on AIX 4.3.3. Thanks, Ralph
Re: INCL/EXCL again - backup just some directories
Thanks for the reply, Andrew! Since you asked, here is my problem background: To keep down the amount we backup during the night, we only want to backup those three directories on our office servers during the business week. On weekends, we want to 'catch up' and backup everything. Our remote offices are mostly connected with T1's, a few places have several machines we backup and those have T3's. The only reason for possibly excluding the objects on the weekend backups is to keep down redundancy of data being backed up. Part of this is because our TSM server is a little to small (not enough disk, and they are not high performance disk either, but all that is another story). Does this make sense? Or am I blowing smoke and not seeing the big picture? ... Thanks again ... JC -Original Message- From: Andrew Raibeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: INCL/EXCL again - backup just some directories If you intend to juggle include/exclude lists around, then I definitely do not recommend that; use two different nodes, each with its own options file, instead. Also, your include statements need '\...\*' at the end of them. However, an alternate suggestion: - For the daily backups, why not define a schedule that addresses only those objects you want to back up? def sch mydomain myschedname objects=d:\apps\* d:\group\* d:\home\* options=-subdir=yes - For the weekly backups, just do regular incremental backup against the D: drive. Is it really necessary to exclude the apps, group, and home directories? (I ask this as a way of trying to understanding the underlying aspects of the backup requirement). Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/28/2004 08:45:57: Yes, again. This is something that never seems to stick correctly in my brain... I have some windows machines, where I do a normal TSM backup weekly. I want to do a backup of just certain directories and their content daily. The directories I want to backup also have sub-directories within them. Should an options file like this do the trick? Do you have other suggestions? This will be a secondary options file for just the daily backup: DOMAIN D: -- every thing I want today is on the D Drive. ExcludeD:*.* Include D:\APPS Include D:\GROUP Include D:\HOME The options for the WEEKEND backup would have DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL Exclude.dirD:\APPS Exclude.dirD:\GROUP Exclude.dirD:\HOME ... Setting up the TSM scheduler is now an issue. I need a separate schedule for the weekly and the daily backups, but I want it to use the TSM scheduler, so I seem to need separate client names for each. Is this correct? TIA for your time and suggestions. ... JC
Re: Tips on backing up over slow networks please
Turn compression on, not good for the server storage or client CPU availability, but there is less to transmit. But know your content (don't compress images, etc). Make sure you only backup what you need to! Are there some files that change daily in the user applications that really are temp files that are re-created every time the app runs? Can you expand your backup window? Or backup some things daily, others on a weekly schedule. 'Snap Shot' by application. Not real snapshots but take the concept and run with it. Basically for an application, quiese(sp) it, copy the files to backup to another directory (or gzip -c -9 it) and backup the copy. If there are multiple machines on the other end of the link to backup, your idea of doing backups with time delays will help each finish faster. Even think of putting a TSM server with disks only at the other end, and backup to disk. Then transmit all the data from server to server to get it on remote tapes. All these 'tips' could be applied to TSM and in non-TSM environments. -Original Message- From: Neil Sharp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tips on backing up over slow networks please Has anybody has experience with backing up over slow N/W's (min. 256k)? Unfortunately the clients are NOT Windows boxes so I can not use adaptive backup or journaling features. Currently I am not aware of the daily change rate of data on each system. My initial thoughts are to perform a staggered initial backup and then once complete implement a daily incremental backup. Things that I am looking for would be advice on the best performance tuning parameters to use. Thanks in advance Regards Neil Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical Support TSM Consultant
Backups being: Canceled by Administrator
I have an ongoing problem that I have not been able to crack. I issue a 'cancel ses all' at 6:55 and 7:00 AM M-F, and for backup that are till running, they get canned and all is well. Ok, not really, but as well as they will be. My problem is I am having the same type of message showing up in the client log of SOME of my client machines apparently ANYWHERE in the backup process during the evening/night. Last night I had about 1/3 of my clients fail to complete the backups due to this, and this happens about one or two times a week. Has anyone else seen / experienced / heard of such a thing? Solutions options? ... Guesses? ... Condolences? ... TIA, Jack (server win2K TSM 4.2.3.1, most clients Win2003 server with TSM 5.1.6 client)
Re: Backups being: Canceled by Administrator
10/26/2004 18:55:18 10/26/2004 18:55:18 Command will be executed in 45 minutes. 10/26/2004 19:40:18 Executing scheduled command now. 10/26/2004 19:40:18 Node Name: DALCENTRAL 10/26/2004 19:40:18 Session established with server TSM_SERVER1: Windows 10/26/2004 19:40:18 Server Version 4, Release 2, Level 3.1 Rick, Sorry for forgetting to put in the message itself! Below is a snippit from the dsmsched.log. The message I was referring to this the ANS1369E message. ... Thanks .. JC 10/26/2004 19:40:18 Data compression forced on by the server 10/26/2004 19:40:18 Server date/time: 10/26/2004 19:40:23 Last access: 10/26/2004 18:55:18 10/26/2004 19:40:19 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN DAILY 10/26/2004 19:30:00 10/26/2004 21:54:11 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 10/26/2004 21:54:26 ... failed 10/26/2004 21:54:27 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Session established with server TSM_SERVER1: Windows 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Server Version 4, Release 2, Level 3.1 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Data compression forced on by the server 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Server date/time: 10/26/2004 21:54:12 Last access: 10/26/2004 21:54:11 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Total number of objects inspected: 35,984 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Total number of objects backed up:2,957 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Total number of objects updated: 0 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Total number of objects rebound: 0 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Total number of objects deleted: 0 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Total number of objects expired: 27 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Total number of objects failed: 0 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Total number of bytes transferred:1,010.31 MB 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Data transfer time:1,722.76 sec 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Network data transfer rate: 600.52 KB/sec 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Aggregate data transfer rate:128.55 KB/sec 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Objects compressed by: 41% 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Elapsed processing time: 02:14:07 10/26/2004 21:54:27 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 10/26/2004 21:54:27 ANS1369E Session Rejected: The session was canceled by the server administrator. 10/26/2004 21:54:27 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END DAILY 10/26/2004 19:30:00 10/26/2004 21:54:27 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY' failed. Return code = 12. 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Sending results for scheduled event 'DAILY'. 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Session established with server TSM_SERVER1: Windows 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Server Version 4, Release 2, Level 3.1 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Data compression forced on by the server 10/26/2004 21:54:27 Server date/time: 10/26/2004 21:54:12 Last access: 10/26/2004 21:54:12 10/26/2004 21:54:28 Results sent to server for scheduled event 'DAILY'. -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backups being: Canceled by Administrator I have an ongoing problem that I have not been able to crack. I issue a 'cancel ses all' at 6:55 and 7:00 AM M-F, and for backup that are till running, they get canned and all is well. Ok, not really, but as well as they will be. My problem is I am having the same type of message showing up in the client log of SOME of my client machines apparently ANYWHERE in the backup process during the evening/night. Last night I had about 1/3 of my clients fail to complete the backups due to this, and this happens about one or two times a week. Has anyone else seen / experienced / heard of such a thing? Solutions options? ... Guesses? ... Condolences? ... TIA, Jack (server win2K TSM 4.2.3.1, most clients Win2003 server with TSM 5.1.6 client)
Re: Upgrading an IBM 3583 library...the 'enterprise' license
In the 'old days', it non-Enterprise was limited to 18 slots and 2 or 3 drives. It may have changed. You could have the hardware there, but TSM would just not use it. Getting the 'Enterprise' license also now days allows DRM if I remember correctly. -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrading an IBM 3583 library...the 'enterprise' license I think that is a question that only your sales rep could answer. And if they told me I could get buy wity only using 3 slots, I'd want that in writing! David [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/20/2004 12:29:12 PM G'day all We are looking into expanding the library a couple more slots, and have run into the ever popular 'enterprise' 40 slot dilemma. We currently have a IBM 3583 library with 2 lto1 drives and 2 columns installed (36 slots) Running TSM 5.1.92. Question I have is, can we just get another column (18 slots) and only use 3 and stay under the enterprise line? Or does just having the extra column put us over whether we use it or not? TIA K (Long time reader, first time poster) Keith Demings Network Consultant Westman Business a division of Westman Communications Group 204.725.4300 Ext. 384 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'?
I am receiving a 'large' number (about 1/3 of total) of backups that are showing 'canceled by administrator' (ANS1369E Session Rejected: The session was canceled by the server administrator. and ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY' failed. Return code = 12.), according to the client logs. On the sever, I see this message (ANE2579E message with RC=12) I am having real trouble determining what is happening! The only things that are happening on the server at this point may be starting migration or copy of disk pools to tape. Server is Windows 2000 with TSM Server 4.2.3.1, most clients are Windows 2003 with TSM client 5.1.6.0. Yes, I have an upgrade project on the drawing board, but not there yet! Tape library is 6 LTO-1 in IBM 3583, SCSI attached). All are network clients. TIA, Jack
Re: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'?
Matthew, No cronned scripts (outside of TSM), I have a scheduled task within to cancel them at 6:55AM and again 7AM on M-F to ensure availability for users in case backups go long. Those are the only two 'cancel ses all' that were issued in the last 24 hours. No, nothing to cancel sessions if their throughput drops. Good suggestions... -Original Message- From: Warren, Matthew (Retail) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 9:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'? Does your actlog show any 'can se' commands? Are there any cronned / scheduled scripts that may be issuing the cancels? Do you have anything that automatically cancells sessions if their throughput drops? Matt. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'? I am receiving a 'large' number (about 1/3 of total) of backups that are showing 'canceled by administrator' (ANS1369E Session Rejected: The session was canceled by the server administrator. and ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY' failed. Return code = 12.), according to the client logs. On the sever, I see this message (ANE2579E message with RC=12) I am having real trouble determining what is happening! The only things that are happening on the server at this point may be starting migration or copy of disk pools to tape. Server is Windows 2000 with TSM Server 4.2.3.1, most clients are Windows 2003 with TSM client 5.1.6.0. Yes, I have an upgrade project on the drawing board, but not there yet! Tape library is 6 LTO-1 in IBM 3583, SCSI attached). All are network clients. TIA, Jack ___ Disclaimer Notice __ This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore Powergen Retail Limited does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Powergen Retail Limited. Registered addresses: Powergen Retail Limited, Westwood Way, Westwood Business Park, Coventry, CV4 8LG. Registered in England and Wales No: 3407430 Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'?
They tend to fail after backups have been running a while, and I am guessing while my command script is starting up forceing backup from disk pools to tape. That sometimes seems to be a intensive procedure for TSM while it is starting up. I just have no way to prove it. :( -Original Message- From: Bill Dourado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'? Do they fail in a particular time period ? Could there be a bottleneck of some sort ? Try spreading out the backups i.e don't have too many running at one time. Bill Warren, Matthew (Retail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/10/2004 15:45 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'? Does your actlog show any 'can se' commands? Are there any cronned / scheduled scripts that may be issuing the cancels? Do you have anything that automatically cancells sessions if their throughput drops? Matt. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unschedued canceling of backups by 'administrator'? I am receiving a 'large' number (about 1/3 of total) of backups that are showing 'canceled by administrator' (ANS1369E Session Rejected: The session was canceled by the server administrator. and ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY' failed. Return code = 12.), according to the client logs. On the sever, I see this message (ANE2579E message with RC=12) I am having real trouble determining what is happening! The only things that are happening on the server at this point may be starting migration or copy of disk pools to tape. Server is Windows 2000 with TSM Server 4.2.3.1, most clients are Windows 2003 with TSM client 5.1.6.0. Yes, I have an upgrade project on the drawing board, but not there yet! Tape library is 6 LTO-1 in IBM 3583, SCSI attached). All are network clients. TIA, Jack ___ Disclaimer Notice __ This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore Powergen Retail Limited does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Powergen Retail Limited. Registered addresses: Powergen Retail Limited, Westwood Way, Westwood Business Park, Coventry, CV4 8LG. Registered in England and Wales No: 3407430 Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: RECLAMATION
James, I have had to start taking my 'onsite' tapes out of my library. This causes some of the same issues. I must keep an eye on what tapes Are needed for reconciliation of the offsite copypool tapes, replace some of the older 'unaccessed' tapes (using q media for this) with tapes needed for the reconciliation. I hope this helps, ... Jack -Original Message- From: Richard Hammersley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RECLAMATION James, Do a query volume and look at the pct util column for the tapes offsite. Compare that value with the Reclamation Threshold for your pool. If there are a lot of tapes that meet that threshold and they don't come back when they should then you should look to make sure the reclamation is running when it should and if it is running to completion.Reclamation Threshold Richard James Lepre wrote: Hello All, I am having problem with reclamation. Tapes are not being recycled as they should be. For instance I used get back about 100 tapes per week, now I am getting back 16. Any suggestions?
Re: How do you guys feel about polls?
Oh about the same as for Chechz or Hungarians or Slovachs.
Re: How do you guys feel about polls?
We have one of each. I would love to have an onsite copypool, but not enough space in my library. -Original Message- From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How do you guys feel about polls? I don't see polls very much (don't believe I have seen any), in the three years I have been on this list but they are pretty popular on others. From time to time I have questions that really aren't problems, but more that I want to know if the things that I am doing are common practice or how many others are doing the same things. I know everyone is busy, so to the point. Do you run more than one tape/copypool? If so, how many more? Ours: 2 tapepools 2 copypools With DRM we have the standard tapepool with a copy to the copypool. I while back we had discussed needs for a second tape/copy pool for a much smaller group of backups with different management class and retention settings. This will put me with two tape and two copy pools in the same library with the copypools being offsite of course. Anyway, if everyone feels against polls let me know and I guess this will be my first and last one. Thanks, Mark Bertrand
Re: Empty Virtual volumes
Is there a retention set? -Original Message- From: -ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 8:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Empty Virtual volumes Anyone ever seen this? Using virtual volumes, my primary server keeps EMPTY volumes around... not sure if they are created empty or become empty through reclamation. Shouldn't they be deleted after reclamataion? Or at least reused? It's filling up maxscratch on the stgp and causing the offsite backup to fail. Thanks for any info... ray =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems EngineerSoutheastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= GABRIEL.BFS.096054236OFFSITE OFFSITE102,400.0 87.2 Full GABRIEL.BFS.096080476OFFSITE OFFSITE 39,008.9 87.2 Full GABRIEL.BFS.096099232OFFSITE OFFSITE 13,074.7 95.5 Full GABRIEL.BFS.096103300OFFSITE OFFSITE102,399.9 80.5 Full GABRIEL.BFS.096120825OFFSITE OFFSITE102,399.9 81.7 Full GABRIEL.BFS.096131325OFFSITE OFFSITE 21,769.1 98.2 Full 0.0 Empty GABRIEL.BFS.096274546OFFSITE OFFSITE 0.0 0.0 Empty GABRIEL.BFS.096277043OFFSITE OFFSITE 0.0 0.0 Empty GABRIEL.BFS.096277409OFFSITE OFFSITE 0.0 0.0 Empty GABRIEL.BFS.096279634OFFSITE OFFSITE 0.0 0.0 Empty GABRIEL.BFS.096321175OFFSITE OFFSITE 0.0 0.0 Empty GABRIEL.BFS.096321480OFFSITE OFFSITE 0.0 0.0 Empty GABRIEL.BFS.096325921OFFSITE OFFSITE 0.0 0.0 Empty GABRIEL.BFS.096329386OFFSITE OFFSITE 0.0 0.0 Empty GABRIEL.BFS.096332046OFFSITE OFFSITE 0.0 0.0 Empty ...etc...
Re: direct attached disk (DAS) at a tape library?
I agree... I even had a vendor CE pull one disk, figure out it was not the right one, put it back in, then IMMEDIATELY pull the 'bad' disk. ... It took days to rebuild the array from backups, and the CE was not allowed back into the building, EVER! --- Per Wanda: [snip] DO NOT THINK that you can't lose a RAID array; I have seen it happen, twice. [snip] ---
Re: please help -- DRM -- 3582 Library with 2 drives -- Need assi stance
Rick got it right. In our library, after the database backup is made and back in its slot, we issue: move drmedia * wherest=mountable tost=courier rem=bulk That pulls the database tape and copypool tapes that are in the library, checks the volume name on each volume and puts it in our output door (our library is a 3583). Once it is done, all the tapes to go offsite are listed in the stat 'courier'. We do a q drmedia Before tape cases come in from offsite (we do it a case at a time, and before we got a little to big, one case per day with 20 tapes it it was enough), and pull any tapes listed as 'vault retrieve' as well as the expired database backup tape (we have both the reuse delay and db backup expiration set to 6 days). For each tape that was found, we do a move drmedia VOLNAME wherest=vaultr This moves the tapes specified to the status of 'courier retrieve'. Then we issue both: move drmedia * wherest=courier move drmedia * wherest=courierr Now the database tape and the retrieved tapes can all be checked in as scratch. Understanding the state machine used in DRM is not hard, but it does take a little study to be comforatable with it! -Original Message- From: Sandra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 1:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: please help -- DRM -- 3582 Library with 2 drives -- Need assistance hmm thats of very much help to me .. 3 day reuse delay is used because currently i don't have much tapes to fully cater with the DRM of my choice. Sandra CORP Rick Willmore wrote: I have to go through my scripts and my very bad memory for your questions so if anyone finds fault with my answers to sandra please dont hesistate :) 1) DRM marks the necessary tapes to go offsite at that point I check them out using a script that I run once a day move drmedia * wherestate=mountable tostate=vault remove=bulk 2) when you bring the tapes back they are usually expired via the DRM and therefore become scratch tapes 3) I personally dont use the reuse delay feature but according to the manual this is for DR purposes as the data on the tape isnt deleted only the database is updated. If you try and bring the tapes back in as scratch after they have after the data has been moved,expired,deleted off of the tape but before the reuse delay TSM should complain and you will have to wait till the 3 day time period is complete. Again I dont use this feature and so I am \ just relaying what is in the manual. R. -Original Message- From: Sandra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: please help -- DRM -- 3582 Library with 2 drives -- Need assistance Thanks R. i have this guide with me but i don't know i m lost somewhere. Like the questions are: 1- how I can automate checkouts of copy storage pool tapes 2- when i bring back the tapes to onsite, and checkin into library would it reuse it for backup of primary stg. pool on these tapes or it would go for scratch volumes? 3- if i keep reuse delay of 3 then should i b able to use the tapes sent to offsite as scratch volumes or what? Sandra CORP Rick Willmore wrote: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246844.pdf I also found a lot of the necessary details for DRM in the Administrator's guide. http://sp81.msi.umn.edu:999/sys_manuals/tsm/aix/guide/a72agd02.htm If you want I can email the guide to you offlist. I just popped this guide link up really quickly. R. -Original Message- From: Sandra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: please help -- DRM -- 3582 Library with 2 drives -- Need assistance PLEASE I NEED ASISTANCE .. CAN ANYONE HELP ME OUT OF THIS??? Sandra Sandra wrote: Dear List, I have installed the TSM extended edition 5.2.2 with patch 5.2.2.5 and maintenance 5.2.3. I have Library setup and backups are being done on tapes in tape library. I am not running collocation. Operating system is Windows 2000 with SP-4. What I have done :? * I have checked in 6 tapes: 0102 03 04 05 06 Currently backup is available on tape 01, that is the only tape volume defined in LTOPOOL1. I have backedup LTOPOOL1 to CPPOOL1 with DRM setup. I have reuse delay of 3, that is I will reuse tape 02 on 4th day from today. ** What I want:? 1- How do I checkout tape 02 to be taken to backup site? 2- How do I track back that I need to take volume 02 to main site and reuse? That is how do i know the cycle of these tapes? 3- Does anyone have any DRM Plan, a small one so that I get to know the details of DAILY operations? I am confused with expire inventory process, how do I initiate it and when? Cheers, Sandra.
Backup clients not going away when their session should end!
I have many clients that are getting caught in my 'cancel ses all' that we run at 6:55AM. 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects inspected: 36,281 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects backed up:3,028 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects updated: 1 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects rebound: 0 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects deleted: 0 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects expired: 70 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of objects failed: 0 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Total number of bytes transferred:354.96 MB -- 350 Meg 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Data transfer time:21,637.18 sec 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Network data transfer rate: 16.79 KB/sec 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Aggregate data transfer rate: 9.71 KB/sec 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Objects compressed by: 50% 09/24/2004 06:55:30 Elapsed processing time: 10:23:29 -- 10 hours Most of the data is really backed up early in the period. This particular client is basically the only user on a T1 circuit! Why are these being 'hanging on' for 10+ Hours?? Even more important, how can I get them to 'hang up' gracefully when they are really done? RTFM answers are OK, just please let me know WHERE to read it? ... TIA ... Jack (environment is mainly Windows, client is 5.1.6, server is Windows 2000 with TSM 4.2.3.1)
Re: direct attached disk (DAS) at a tape library?
Yep, you can do it. Overland also sells a virtual tape library, but I don't know about their prices, and so do other vendors. It is basically a bunch of disk, but looks like tapes. Why is virtual tape so expensive? Well, IMHO ;) if folks will buy it at that price, then they will sell it!!! TSM doesn't have to have it, but there may be some reasons why it is good. I am sure someone can straighten me out on it! But you can set up a JBOD of any size with a file system on it. You can use it as a disk pool, or, if you are having some tapes still, you might take some of it and define some serial storage on disk. It will process just like tapes, just a lot faster. Keeping your disk and on-site 'tape' pool on disk devices is just fine, if you like its reliability! To get stuff off site, I like keeping tapes. $/gig, tapes are pretty cheap and pretty reliable. If you have the tape bandwidth, I would like an on-site copypool and an offsite copypool on tape. But that may just be my belt and suspenders conservatism. ... Enjoy, JC -Original Message- From: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: direct attached disk (DAS) at a tape library? We have TSM 5.1.6.5 on win2k server. library is overland neo 4100 (60 tape capacity) with 2 X HP LTO-2 drives. We need another 12TB of backup capacity. We are considering getting something other that another tape library. Couldn't we buy a couple of 6.4TB SCSI-SATA RAID DAS devices, and attach that to our backup host via SCSI, and start using that DAS as one big disk(tape)? We would just tell TSM that the big disk is some massive spool, or even a tape. We could even buy several of the DAS units, and just keep adding them as spool (or tape) disks on the SCSI chain. This would give us FAST backup and restore. Why do we need tapes? I know there are disk systems like the Reo, which is just a DAS RAID that does tape virtualization, but those things cost 3 times as much as a regular DAS. Why is tape virtualization so expensive? Why do we need tape virtualization? Is there something about how TSM handles disks vs. tapes, that makes using DAS impossible, or not a good idea? We are not too worried about reliability. We think we can configure multiple RAID arrays on the devices so that we lessen the chance of disk failure causing backup data loss. There must be some things we don't realize that tape virtualization gives us that a bunch of DAS disks won't. Price isn't it though, because we can get 13TB of DAS for 24K. The equivalent in LTO-2 tape (with library) costs 35K. And Disk to Disk backup is even more, like 44K! The only disadvantage we can come up with are that we can't remove tapes. But we don't remove tapes anyway. Please tell me why we shouldn't just attach a big 13TB DAS to our TSM host, and start using that as the main backup disk. Thanks, Alex --- --- Alex Lazarevich | Systems Administrator | Imaging Technology Group Beckman Institute | University of Illinois | www.itg.uiuc.edu --- ---
Re: Empty Tapes are NOT Empty?
Yes it does show them as empty. ... ... I'll try the audit vol. Thanks... Jack -Original Message- From: Doug Thorneycroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Empty Tapes are NOT Empty? Does q content also show them as empty? Even if they have overflow on them, the move data should work unless the original file is no longer available in your primary pool. You might have to return the tapes and run an audit vol. on them. -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 4:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Empty Tapes are NOT Empty? I found that my offsite copy pool has lots of tapes in it that are 'full' or 'filling', but 0 percent full. I do a move data on these tapes, and some say they cannot be moved, but they are not empty (and not moving to the pending state). My understanding is these tapes may have the overflow of a large file that has the first portion on another tape. Ifs so, how can I find out what the other tape is? As always, awed as to the knowledge of this list, ... Jack
Empty Tapes are NOT Empty?
I found that my offsite copy pool has lots of tapes in it that are 'full' or 'filling', but 0 percent full. I do a move data on these tapes, and some say they cannot be moved, but they are not empty (and not moving to the pending state). My understanding is these tapes may have the overflow of a large file that has the first portion on another tape. Ifs so, how can I find out what the other tape is? As always, awed as to the knowledge of this list, ... Jack
Upgrade time...
I could use a little help. I am at TSM Win 4.2.3.1 on my server and need to upgrade to 5.2 or so. Probably to 5.2.2.3. I have a 3583 with LTO1's, all freshly upgraded to current microcode a week or two ago. Any special gotcha's I should look for? From what I have skimmed (I would say read, but I know I miss stuff), it looks like: Do an un-install of the TSM device driver. Do an un-install of the TSM server. Install the new versions of both. This seems to simple. Are there any conversion utilities I should use? Special commands to clean up the database? Etc? etc? Just not wanting to miss anything.
Re: Upgrade time...
Yep, Thanks for asking :) -Original Message- From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrade time... Have you done the infamous CLEANUP BACKUPGROUPS ? Coats, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/21/2004 05:54 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Upgrade time... I could use a little help. I am at TSM Win 4.2.3.1 on my server and need to upgrade to 5.2 or so. Probably to 5.2.2.3. I have a 3583 with LTO1's, all freshly upgraded to current microcode a week or two ago. Any special gotcha's I should look for? From what I have skimmed (I would say read, but I know I miss stuff), it looks like: Do an un-install of the TSM device driver. Do an un-install of the TSM server. Install the new versions of both. This seems to simple. Are there any conversion utilities I should use? Special commands to clean up the database? Etc? etc? Just not wanting to miss anything.
Re: Script
Yep, I'm starting to do this too. But I am logging in from home and doing it by hand. Automation is the way to go. If someone already has this took I am interested as well! Eric, You didn't mention your environment (AIX?, Windows?). Our server is Windows, but I installed the M$ UNIX tool kit that has awk and a few other toys that helps in the conversion of *nix scripts. -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 6:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Script Hi *SM-ers! I'm trying to create a script which does the following: 1) query the server for any running reclamation 2) retrieves the process id for this reclamation 3) cancels the reclamation 4) starts a backup storage pool Can this be done in one script? If so, how do I put the process id in a variable which I can parse to the cancel command? Thank you very much for any reply in advance!! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: Script
Ok, this is a 'TSM Kill Reclaimations' batch file for windows that can be
run from the Windows 'scheduled tasks' or from the TSM scheduler as a batch
file.
It uses a directory C:\WORK and C:\WORK\Logs\ This script goes into
C:\WORK
The Admin ID and Password should be better protected, but such is life in a
test environment.
It also uses a shareware program called BLAT. Google it, if you want to
e-mail your admins. Put their e-mail addresses in a file
c:\work\tsmadmns.txt - read the install for blat, it is easy, but it must be
done to work.
I hope this helps someone else.
@Echo Off
REM TSMKillReclaimation.cmd - 20040916 jcoats - based a thread in the ADSM-L
list
set PATH=%PATH%;c:\Progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient
set PDSM=C:\Program Files\Tivoli\tsm\baclient\
set DSMC=dsmadmc.exe -ID=ADMIN -PASS=ADMIN -OUTFILE=C:\WORK\TEMP2.TXT
cd \WORK
del /q KillRec.txt
del /q temp.txt
del /q temp2.txt
del /q temp3.txt
del /q temp4.txt
Echo TSM Kill Reclaimation temp.txt
date /t temp.txt
time /t temp.txt
cd %PDSM%
%DSMC% UPDATE STG TAPEDATA REC=100
%DSMC% UPDATE STG COPYPOOL REC=100
%DSMC% select * from processes where PROCESS like '%%Reclamation%%'
cd \sbib
REM save a copy of the reclaimations that are running
echo *** Reclaimations Running *** temp4.txt
type temp2.txt temp4.txt
cd %PDSM%
%DSMC% select PROCESS_NUM from processes where PROCESS like
'%%Reclamation%%'
cd \sbib
copy TEMP2.TXT TEMP3.TXT
for /F eol=A tokens=1* skip=8 %%i in (TEMP3.TXT) do (
%DSMC% KILL PROC %%i
)
copy temp.txt+temp4.txt KillRec.txt
date /t KillRec.txt
time /t KillRec.txt
for /F tokens=2-4 delims=/, %%i in ('Date /t') do (
copy KillRec.txt Logs\KillRec%%k%%i%%j.txt
)
blat KillRec.txt -Subject TSM-KillReclaimation -tf administrators.txt
del /q KillRec.txt
del /q temp.txt
del /q temp2.txt
del /q temp3.txt
del /q temp4.txt
Re: each dbbackup to new tape?
Yes Lucian, that is right. Once a full backup of the database is taken the concept is it should be removed from the library, and hopefully sent offsite with your offsite copy pool, and other information (like the plan file if you use TSM DRM). Yes, it does seem wasteful, such a 'big tape' and so little data, but in the grand scheme of things it is not real bad. I wish that DRM data was stored on the tape too, but such is not the case (I make a floppy with plan file data that goes offsite with the dbbackup tape as a set daily). Once the DB backup tape expires, it will be a scratch tape, so it does come back! In general, just plan on having the number of TSM database backup tapes as you have work days in your offsite rotation for the database. Also, set your reuse time for your offsite copy pool to the same number of days you have in your database rotation. That way tapes you need for restoring ANY of the days you have data for offsite will be available if needed. If you don't (by setting your reuse delay to zero or very short) you will have tapes turn back to scratches faster, but the data will not be on the tapes if you need to restore from a prior date. -Original Message- From: Lucian Greis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: each dbbackup to new tape? Hi list, I'm rather green with TSM, actually working through my first client-project with it and have come to a (small for sure) problem System: TSM 5.2 on SuSe SLES8, feeding an Adic Scalar24 with one IBM-LTO2. Basically, the system works. Whenever I command a dbBackup, wether full or incremetal, TSM wants to write to a scratch tape only. If i give the volser of a tape used for an earlier dbbackup explicitly, TSM says the tape is full (which it is not). Can someone point me to the right direction? Regards, Lucian Greis MKV GmbH
Re: Wishlist Item
Eric, Thanks for the response! Why bother? For the same reason that using TSM 'Incremental Forever' approach makes sense. TSM, without co-location, has the same problem you mentioned, about the fragmentation for restores. TSM already does the scan and checking of attributes to allow its Incremental approach to work. And using the TSM Journal even helps with that some. My thought is that this is if TSM is already paying the price (for the most part), then it might make sense to do the next step in optimization. Especially for any enterprise site that is backing up a number of (at least on the systems partition) substantially similar machines. Even if it didn't work out, this would be a good study for IBM/Tivoli TSM support team to make to see if it is 'worth it', to them and to us as paying customers. I have no illusion that every suggestion will be taken, but ones that make sense, and give an edge in the market place, with 'minimal' effort (easy for me to say, I'm not the developer ;) - could be a good thing. In my not understanding the internals of TSM, I would think it would need a field added to the DB record for each file (a big hit on DB size) to keep an MD5 or similar checksum, update the server software to accept this update and use it as an indexed search key, update the client to send and check on the MD5 also, and update the Journal software to allow the cache to hold and use the MD5 key. (I suggest MD5 as it is a well known algorithm that should cover most sins, but I am sure a real statistical study would be needed to see what is sufficient to give an assurance that it is really the file needed. I am sure this will add some overhead, but hopefully enough would be gained to overcome the cost! ... Still, it is just an idea. And the TSM team has probably thought of it anyway, and already dealt with it in house. ... Jack -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 2:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wishlist Item Hi Jack! Before we started using ADSM we ran a backup application called ESM on our MVS mainframe. It was one of the most sophisticated backup applications at that time (1993). It was created by a company called Legent and later on Legent was bought by Computer Associates. They relabeled it to CA-ESM and now (but I don't know this for sure) it's called BrightStor. This product did what you mentioned. It stored all files just once, so the winfile.exe file was only stored once for all Windows clients. The problem with this approach was that the actual scan process involves some kind of CRC check. Just checking the attributes and file size is not enough to determine whether a file has changed. This scan took far to much time. Also, since some files are identical during backup to version backed up earlier on, your storage pool gets heavily fragmented and thus, a restore took a very long time to complete. Also, storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, so why bother? Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 22:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wishlist Item Yes, I know I am dreaming, but... An open source program, pcbackup or backuppc something like that on Sourceforge has a very nice feature. If a file is already backed up, it only keeps one copy of that file for ALL its clients! What technique does it use to figure out if the files are identical without comparing them? I didn't research it that far, but I assume it uses something like file size and a checksum of some kind. Anyway, if you have significantly identical client computer you are backing up, just keeping one rather than N copies is better than any compression known to man! It would be another field or so in the database for every file, but it might be worth it! At least as an option. ... Jack ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Sessions being canceled?
I am getting this kind of message in several of my clients: 09/13/2004 00:00:43 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 09/13/2004 00:00:43 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 09/13/2004 00:00:58 ANS1811S TSM session could not be reestablished. 09/13/2004 00:00:59 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 09/13/2004 00:01:01 ANS1369E Session Rejected: The session was canceled by the server administrator. 09/13/2004 00:01:01 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY' failed. Return code = 12. 09/14/2004 03:05:57 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 09/14/2004 03:05:57 ANS1809W Session is lost; initializing session reopen procedure. 09/14/2004 03:06:14 ANS1811S TSM session could not be reestablished. 09/14/2004 03:06:14 ANS1369E Session Rejected: The session was canceled by the server administrator. 09/14/2004 03:06:14 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'DAILY' failed. Return code = 12. Any idea why this would happen in the middle of the backup window? TSM sever 4.2.3.1 and clients 5.1.6.0 - all windows (sever and clients, well, almost, at least 98% of clients are windows anyway) Yes, my backup server is overloaded.
Wishlist Item
Yes, I know I am dreaming, but... An open source program, pcbackup or backuppc something like that on Sourceforge has a very nice feature. If a file is already backed up, it only keeps one copy of that file for ALL its clients! What technique does it use to figure out if the files are identical without comparing them? I didn't research it that far, but I assume it uses something like file size and a checksum of some kind. Anyway, if you have significantly identical client computer you are backing up, just keeping one rather than N copies is better than any compression known to man! It would be another field or so in the database for every file, but it might be worth it! At least as an option. ... Jack
Re: Sizing for a virtual tape library
I agree, think of it as so many tapes. Since they are 'really fast tapes', being on disk, you might consider doing reclaimation at some unusually low number to get expired data out of the way ASAP. If you don't need the space that badly, relax the reclaimation percentage a bit. Instead of starting withe 80 or 60 percent like you would on tapes, you might start with 40 percent and go to 20 percent if you need the space. This still leaves you with about 20% of the library with 'old data', plus your need for at least one or two 'scratch tapes' in the library at a minimum! If emulating LTO1 drives, at 100G each, 62T gives you about 600 (being conservative) volumes. Take away even 2 scratch volumes as a minimum for scratch tapes and subtract 20% of the rest as 'expired data' you still get (598 - 120) 478 volumes at 100G each of real data, or 47.8T on your 62T library. If you know your data, and know you get a real world 30% compression, then it should find close to your 62T of data ( 47.8*1.3=62.14T but that is close with this level of engineering estimate). If you get better compression you really win. Depending on your needs, you could use client compression, or tape drive compression. There are religous camps on both sides, but I suggest you give it a try both ways to see what you really get. ... green with envy ... JC
Re: Sizing for a virtual tape library
True. ... I use the reuse delay on my copypool tapes (same number of days that I keep db backups). But on my onsite tapepool, I use a reuse delay of zero, making them immediately available. It may not be advisable, but with a small library, sometimes you do things that way :( -Original Message- From: Johnson, Milton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sizing for a virtual tape library Just to add another fly in the ointment, if you have an aggressive reclamation threshold, say 25%, and a reuse delay of say 5 days, you may end up with a lot more tapes in a pending state then you anticipated. A pending tape is not a scratch tape. H. Milton Johnson -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sizing for a virtual tape library I agree, think of it as so many tapes. Since they are 'really fast tapes', being on disk, you might consider doing reclaimation at some unusually low number to get expired data out of the way ASAP. If you don't need the space that badly, relax the reclaimation percentage a bit. Instead of starting withe 80 or 60 percent like you would on tapes, you might start with 40 percent and go to 20 percent if you need the space. This still leaves you with about 20% of the library with 'old data', plus your need for at least one or two 'scratch tapes' in the library at a minimum! If emulating LTO1 drives, at 100G each, 62T gives you about 600 (being conservative) volumes. Take away even 2 scratch volumes as a minimum for scratch tapes and subtract 20% of the rest as 'expired data' you still get (598 - 120) 478 volumes at 100G each of real data, or 47.8T on your 62T library. If you know your data, and know you get a real world 30% compression, then it should find close to your 62T of data ( 47.8*1.3=62.14T but that is close with this level of engineering estimate). If you get better compression you really win. Depending on your needs, you could use client compression, or tape drive compression. There are religous camps on both sides, but I suggest you give it a try both ways to see what you really get. ... green with envy ... JC
Migration 4.2 to 5.3
It is time upgrade :-) I currently have 4.2.1.3 on a windows 2K server. Going to upgrade to a Win 2003 server with the latest server (5.3 I think) Does anyone know of any upgrade problems with making that big of a jump? Even 'it would have been smoother/easier if I had ...' stories? ... Jack
Re: Migration 4.2 to 5.3
Thanks Eric. ... We have in the budget to go AIX soon, but we are so far back on maintenance that I want to go to a supported version :) even before we swap platforms. Hopefully our AIX upgrade will be approved and not 'deferred'. Sorry, I thought 5.3 was out. .. Yep, will only upgrade to latest supported release! -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Migration 4.2 to 5.3 Hi Jack! I wouldn't use 5.3. It will go in beta somewhere in September.. ;-) Level 5.2.3.0 is the latest maintenance release available. I'm personally running it on AIX, so I can't give you further hints and tips for Windows... Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 13:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Migration 4.2 to 5.3 It is time upgrade :-) I currently have 4.2.1.3 on a windows 2K server. Going to upgrade to a Win 2003 server with the latest server (5.3 I think) Does anyone know of any upgrade problems with making that big of a jump? Even 'it would have been smoother/easier if I had ...' stories? ... Jack ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. **
Re: Migration 4.2 to 5.3
Thanks Charles! ... I forgot about that. I did run it a month or so ago and was supprised at how much it effected our database especially (size went down several percent once we could go through a full expiration). It is now on my checklist! -Original Message- From: Hart, Charles [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Migration 4.2 to 5.3 RUn cleanup backupgroups prior to upgrade as it cleans out a bug where win2k sysobj do not expire to the policies. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Migration 4.2 to 5.3 It is time upgrade :-) I currently have 4.2.1.3 on a windows 2K server. Going to upgrade to a Win 2003 server with the latest server (5.3 I think) Does anyone know of any upgrade problems with making that big of a jump? Even 'it would have been smoother/easier if I had ...' stories? ... Jack
How long did each client take to backup?
Is there a query or SQL query I could run to get me that can tell me, on a per client basis, how long the backup took from the servers perspective for each backup that ran in the last 24 hours? TIA ... JC
Re: How long did each client take to backup?
Thanks to all who replied. ... Sofar I have Select Entity,Start_Time,Stop_time,successful from summary - where activity='BACKUP' order by entity But I am having problems getting into the where clause the eqivalent of AND start_time TODAY -1 at 08:00 Yes, I know the 'TODAY -1 at 08:00' syntax is wrong, but that is the current issue. ... Suggestions? I am glad to post a summary for future reference when git is going if there is interest. (If you have interest, e-mail me directly rather than post ... just keeps down non-list information on the list!) -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How long did each client take to backup? Is there a query or SQL query I could run to get me that can tell me, on a per client basis, how long the backup took from the servers perspective for each backup that ran in the last 24 hours? TIA ... JC
Re: Strange q stgp behaviour
Geert, No, what you see is correct. Copy pools do not show the columns. Migration and next pool do not have any meaning in the world of copy pools. ... Enjoy. ... Jack -Original Message- From: Geert De Pecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 4:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Strange q stgp behaviour Hi, I'm having a really strange problem with my copypool. It doesn't show some of the columns anymore when running the q stgp command. Yesterday, I removed the complete copy1 storage pool and associated volumes after which I have created a new copy1 pool, but the problem stays. Is there someone who knows what is the problem here? tsm: SERVER1q stgp Storage Device Estimated Pct Pct High Low Next Stora- Pool Name Class Name Capacity Util Migr Mig Mig ge Pool (MB) Pct Pct --- -- -- - - --- --- ARCHIVEPOOL DISK 0.0 0.0 0.0 90 60 BACKUPPOOL BACKUPPOOL DISK200,000.0 81.8 81.8 60 50 TAPEBACKUP COPY1 LTOTAPE1,907,340. 6.0 0 SPACEMGPOOL DISK 0.0 0.0 0.0 90 70 BACKUPPOOL TAPEBACKUP LTOTAPE1,939,625. 40.8 70.0 90 70 Thanks, Geert9
DR Test and Needing a little help ... need 3583-TL drivers
Our DR system is Windows 2003, and we must test with TSM 4.2.3.1. We cannot seem to get TSM to see the Library, it sees the drives OK. All is SCSI. We installed the drivers from IBM we though had the Library in it, but it was for the Ultrium LTO Tape drives instead of the Library (insert grumble about IBM web site here) Any suggestions or where/how we could get these drives? Do you have some you could e-mail to me? ... Needing Sympathy in 100Degree Temps in Houston
Re: DR Test and Needing a little help ... need 3583-TL drivers
Oops, we figured it out. ... I hate when I hear that great poping sound when I pull my head out!
Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch
Ok, I'll show my ignorance. Would the setting of MAXSCRATCH being to low on your default tape pool have any effect? -Original Message- From: fred johanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 1:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Empty tapes not returning to scratch A new variation on an old problem. I've moved a lot of media to the shelf for space reasons. A bonus to using move as opposed to checkout is that when tapes hit empty on the shelf, they do not disappear from the storagepool. I restored 4 such to the tape robot on Friday, checked them into the Library Manager, and updated them to Mountable in Library, while Pending Reuse is set to 0. And there they sit, and nothing will change the status back to scratch. I've tried Move Data, Del vol, Aud vol, and changing their access to destroyed. Nothing seems to work. Fred Johanson ITSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464
Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch
mind deletes if it is either r/o or r/w. unavailable blocks deletion. I am still on TSM 4.2 on windows -Original Message- From: TSM_User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 6:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Empty tapes not returning to scratch I think that when your tape is in a status of somthing other than readw it won't delete. Update the volume access=readw. fred johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Server level 5.2.2.5 q med uc0262 UC0262 Mountable in library UOCLIB q vol uc0262 f=d Volume Name: UC0262 Storage Pool Name: BACKDESKPOOL Device Class Name: TAPE Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0 Scaled Capacity Applied: Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Empty Access: Read-Only Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 1 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 10/18/2003 14:45:00 Approx. Date Last Read: 10/18/2003 14:12:53 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Shelf Tape Library Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No Last Update by (administrator): FRED Last Update Date/Time: 02/06/2004 12:31:03 tsm: TSMmove data uc0262 ANR2232W This command will move all of the data stored on volume UC0262 to other volumes within the same storage pool; the data will be inaccessible to users until the operation completes. Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y ANR2209W Volume UC0262 contains no data. ANS8001I Return code 11. tsm: TSMdel vol uc0262 ANR2220W This command will delete volume UC0262 from its storage pool after verifying that the volume contains no data. Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y ANS8001I Return code 14. tsm: TSMaud vol uc0262 ANR2310W This command will compare all inventory references to volume UC0262 with the actual data stored on the volume and will report any discrepancies; the data will be inaccessible to users until the operation completes. Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y ANR2209W Volume UC0262 contains no data. tsm: TSMupd vol uc0262 acc=dest ANR2212I UPDATE VOLUME: No volumes updated. At 03:32 PM 8/2/2004 -0400, you wrote: Fred, Were these tapes originally scratch tapes? Or are they assigned to the storagepool? Posting the output from the commands q vol f=d and select * from volumes where volume_name='' would help us provide assistance. Also, what sort of output/response errors did you get when you attempted to del vol or audit vol? Ted At 03:21 PM 8/2/2004, you wrote: Tried that. At 02:54 PM 8/2/2004 -0400, you wrote: You moved them out. Move them back. Magic. Dale Jolliff Sungard Midrange Storage Administration Office Telephone: (856) 566-5022 fred johanson Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager 08/02/2004 02:12 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Empty tapes not returning to scratch A new variation on an old problem. I've moved a lot of media to the shelf for space reasons. A bonus to using move as opposed to checkout is that when tapes hit empty on the shelf, they do not disappear from the storagepool. I restored 4 such to the tape robot on Friday, checked them into the Library Manager, and updated them to Mountable in Library, while Pending Reuse is set to 0. And there they sit, and nothing will change the status back to scratch. I've tried Move Data, Del vol, Aud vol, and changing their access to destroyed. Nothing seems to work. Fred Johanson ITSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464 Fred Johanson ITSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464 Fred Johanson ITSM Administrator University of Chicago 773-702-8464 - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!
Tape issue
I have a tape that says it is empty if I do a 'q content', but it will not go back into scratch. If I do a 'delete vol' I am told there is still data on the tape. I am guessing that a set of files is 'bundled together' (I forget the official techno speak for this, but it helps cluster lots of small files into one larger file), and the bundle extends over two tapes, and this is the second tape. But that is ONLY A GUESS. Is there a way to verify this? ... Jack
Re: Tape issue
Ralph and Doug have a good idea. I'll give it a try! They both suggested doing an 'audit volume'. -Original Message- From: Levi, Ralph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape issue Try doing: audit vol xxx fix=yes Ralph -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coats, Jack Sent: July 30, 2004 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tape issue I have a tape that says it is empty if I do a 'q content', but it will not go back into scratch. If I do a 'delete vol' I am told there is still data on the tape. I am guessing that a set of files is 'bundled together' (I forget the official techno speak for this, but it helps cluster lots of small files into one larger file), and the bundle extends over two tapes, and this is the second tape. But that is ONLY A GUESS. Is there a way to verify this? ... Jack
Re: Tape issue
I tried the move data. But the tape also has a write error on it, so I am guessing it cannot get to a fragment of a spanned file. -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tape issue I occasionally get one of these. Doing a move data on it moves the little bit of data and frees up the tape.
Re: TDP Informix - copygroup retention values on Server?
Reading the docs for the TDP closely helps. I had to :( In any case, you need to have one client for the machine (system and flat files), and another name for the TDP. I hope this helps. ... Jack -Original Message- From: David McClelland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TDP Informix - copygroup retention values on Server? Guys especially Del Hoobler ;o), New to Informix backups. One of our internal customers has an Informix consultant in who has never used TSM before, and is looking to try out some TDPI/ONBAR backups to our TSM servers. Looking at what (little) documentation there is for TDPI on IBM.COM, I'm a little in the dark as how to register these nodes best at the TSM server side. I've created a new domain for these backups, but when it comes to retver, reto etc in the backup and archive copygroups, I can't find any guidance at all in the docs. From my understanding of I have been able to discover, expiration is managed at the Informix end, so am I looking at a similar setup to the retention settings I've used in the past for DB2/Oracle backups? Any guidance most welcome! TSM Server Solaris 5.1.6.2, clients at 5.1.6.2 (Solaris probably 8 but could be 9), don't know which version of TDP for Informix they might be using, but I presume a latest version. Rgds, David McClelland Reuters Ltd, London --- - Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.
Re: Database tapes
delete vol VOLUMEID discarddata=yes should handle it. ... -Original Message- From: Mark Heynes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database tapes Guy's Can someone tell me the easiest way to copy a database tape and then delete the record of it from TSM. What I'm after is creating a copy of the database so that we can test some recovery procedures off site but want to be able to just wipe the tape at the end rather than return it to the TSM server Thanks in advance Mark
Re: Multiplexing to a single tape
My info is old, but my guess it hasn't changed much since I used to work for a VAR and we sold both TSM and Veritas NetBackup: Veritas multiplexes blocks from various backup clients on the tapes when this is being done. It works, and is very effective. They basically used a hacked version of gzip to prepend the node name/sequesnce number (effectively) on the data block before it is written to tape. This is best used when writing directly to tape from multiple clients backing up at the same time. If you keep the tape fed and you have enough bandwidth, you can keep the tape streaming. For performance you MUST keep the tapes streaming. (I think I heard that you may be able to backup to disk now, and then backup to tape, but I never used it, and I may be mis-remembering too.) Scaling backups with Veritas has to do with bandwidth, tape streaming speed, number of concurrent clients you are backing up, and number of tape drives available to backup to. TSM does this as a two step process. Backup to disk local on the TSM machine, then put the files from disk to tape. This does not 'multiplex' like Veritas does, but it intermingles files from various clients on the same tapes. Since the disk drives are local, and if your TSM server is configured correctly (I have one with a problem, so ...) you can keep the tapes streaming by sucking the data from disk. (Before someone crys foul, yes you can use TSM to backup directly to tape, especially for large files, but I havn't heard of people using this much, and it is an issue if you need to keep the tapes streaming and there isn't enough bandwidth). This means that Veritas requires less disk and better bandwidth from clients when backups are happening, and TSM can handle small clients, random backup times, and low bandwith situations much better than Veritas. But TSM does require the disk space, and a good database. Veritas has the benefit of if the database 'catalog' is destroyed and you cannot get the catalog back from a backup, you can re-bulid the catalog, but you have to spin all the tapes, end to end. (Veritas seems to be an easier 'sell' because it is full+diff/incremental type of backup rather than TSMs 'incremental forever'. After 3years management here still doesn't have that down!) TSM and Veritas have the SAME problem when it comes to restores. They both MAY have to spin a number of tapes to perform one (non-trivial) restore. In general, TSM uses more disk, Veritas uses more tape drives, TSM must have some 'downtime' for reclaimation. Database maintenance on both systems is needed to keep things optimal. I hope this helps ... Jack -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Multiplexing to a single tape I was wondering if anyone was multiplexing backups to a single tape. Recently I attended a Veritas class, our other new backup system, (yes I did ask to stay completely with TSM) and they really touted this as what seemed like a very good means of backup. Unless you have the newer faster technology tape drives I'm not sure I agree with it but don't have experience since disk pools have always been plentiful. I'm not sure I agree with it anyway because I believe restores would be slow since data would be scattered throughout the tape. What if multiple restores need the same tape? Can they run at the same time and if so wouldn't that be even worse? So the question I have is, has anyone tried this functionality with TSM, or Veritas for that matter since I believe there are others on the list that use it. I am interested in any feedback so feel free to praise or rail on it. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 854-0975
Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives
I havn't read the SBO requirements, but from our internal auditors, it looks like we need to have a good business best efforts to keep readable for whatever retention period we publicize. In working with older tape technology in storing archive tapes, we found that 20% of the tapes were not readable within 5 years. It seems that the best idea for long term archives is they need to be re-read on a regular basis (annually?) just to make sure they can be read. The only time I have heard of a real application that must have 'everything forever' was a TSM application where they were storing a local and remote copy of documentation (and each version) for a nuclear power plant. In that case, I think they used a WORM library both locally and remotely. I didn't design it and don't know the details, just that it 'had to work'. It got expensive, but that is what the federal regulators requried. -Original Message- From: Shannon Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives For us, it is the beginning of the Sarbanes-Oxley overhaul. I ask those same questions to people all over my company and their response? Well you (me) had better make sure that the data moves with whatever new Technoloogy comes in! They don't care if we have the software capable of reading this data again. They just want to be in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley. And it is starting to look to me that Sarbanes-Oxley believes in keeping everything, forever. Andrew Raibeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/19/2004 11:25 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Thoughts on Monthly Archives Some considerations for long-term archive: - Much of today's data, as it is used from day to day, exists in some product-specific format. If you were to retrieve that data, say, 10 years from now, would you have software capable of reading that data? - Even if you archive the software, will operating systems 10 years from now be able to run that software? - Even if you archive the operating system installation files, will the hardware 10 years from now be able to install and run that operating system? - There is a good case to consider carefully what gets archived and how you archive it.For instance, maybe for database data, it would make sense to export that data to some common format, such as tab- or comma-delimited records, which is very likely to be importable by most software. Likewise, for image data, consider a format that is common today and likely to be common tomorrow. - 10 years from now, the people that need to retrieve the archived data will probably not be the same people who originally archived the data. Will your successors know what that data is? Will they know how to get to it? (Gee, we need to get at the accounts payable database from 10 years ago... under which node is it archived?) Will they know how to reconstruct it, and how to use it? I am by no means an expert in this area, but these are some things to consider carefully for long-term archives. Note that most of these issues are not directly related to TSM, but apply regardless of which data storage tool you use. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence.
Re: Multiplexing to a single tape
IMHO, if you must move from TSM to Veritas NetBackup, (typically a bureaucratic or economic reason, not technically based) just start using NetBackup and stop using TSM. Then keep TSM running on a 'warm' server, and test restores and migtating from tape to tape occasionally. You can pretty much get rid of the disk pools, but you will need to keep TSM 'alive' and ready to restore until you are ready to call it 'dead' for your use. I hope you never have to do this. But this is how we migrated from Veritas BackupEXEC to TSM, and given our 60 day retention window, it was acceptable. This is also how a IBM VAR is suggestion we migrate to a new TSM server (from Windows to AIX), but that seems odd to me. ... Jack
Re: SAPr3 agent password problem
TSM's TDP for Exchange has a seaparate dsm.opt file from the one used for the base machine backup. Does the SAP agent have a separate one from the base machine? If so that might be a place to start looking. -Original Message- From: Steve Hartland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SAPr3 agent password problem Hi all I am having a problem registering the password using the backint utility. SAP agent version 3.3.2 On AIX 5.2 SAP 4.7. I get the following error: BKI2027I: Using TSM-API version 5.2.2.0 (compiled with 4.2.3.0). BKI2000I: Successfully connected to PROLE on port tdpr3ora64. BKI0005I: Start of program at: Thu Jul 15 16:41:20 2004 . BKI5014E: Tivoli Storage Manager Error: ANS1035S (RC406) Options file '*' not found BKI0020I: End of program at: Thu Jul 15 16:41:20 2004 . BKI0021I: Elapsed time: 00 sec . BKI0024I: Return code is: 2. Dsm.opt and dsm.sys are correct and present in both the client and the tdp_r3 directories. SAP backup job also complains about missing opt file. Can anyone help? Regards Steve Hartland Lechabile Storage Solutions 0824645461
TSM and Active Directory
Ok I havn't researched it well, but does someone have a thumbnail of dantages/disadvantages of having TSM advertise itself via Active Directory? Currently we are a totally Winders (almost - a few AIX machines too) environment. Even a nice RTFM reference is appreciated. TIA ... Jack
Re: Cancel all processes
I have found it helpful to issue a 'cancel req ###' if there is a request pending associated with trying to get rid of a process. In my experience, if it is trying to mount a tape, the tape must be mounted before the process will die gracefully. -Original Message- From: Warren, Matthew (Retail) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cancel all processes Would it fail, or just take a loong time to complete? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Foster Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cancel all processes Hot Diggety! MC Matt Cooper (2838) was rumored to have written: I am not aware of a cancel all processes. However, you can write a script to do it. It would be based on the fact that TSM will tell you all the processes that are running.select process_num from processes will give you the process_num numbers that need to be canceled One caveat, from the 5.1 help information: : Some processes, such as reclamation, will generate mount requests in : order to complete processing. If a process has a pending mount request, : the process may not respond to a CANCEL PROCESS command until the mount : request has been answered or cancelled by using either the REPLY or : CANCEL REQUEST command, or by timing out. : Use the QUERY REQUEST command to list open requests, or query the : activity log to determine if a given process has a pending mount : request. So a simple q proc (or equivalent) + canc proc num operation may usually work most of the time, but may fail at certain times if you don't also check for this, too. -Dan ___ Disclaimer Notice __ This message and any attachments are confidential and should only be read by those to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact us, delete the message from your computer and destroy any copies. Any distribution or copying without our prior permission is prohibited. Internet communications are not always secure and therefore Powergen Retail Limited does not accept legal responsibility for this message. The recipient is responsible for verifying its authenticity before acting on the contents. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Powergen Retail Limited. Registered addresses: Powergen Retail Limited, Westwood Way, Westwood Business Park, Coventry, CV4 8LG. Registered in England and Wales No: 3407430 Telephone +44 (0) 2476 42 4000 Fax +44 (0) 2476 42 5432
Re: directory management class
Joni, We have a small disk pool for the directories (200M is big for us), and the general data goes in a data pool (200G that I wish could be bigger), and a separate disk pool for Exchange backups (60G holds 4 exchange databases). We put all these to one tapepool, and do a single copypoool that is also on tape. The copypool goes off site. We have several NT type domains and back them all up to the same pools. Our TSM severs are Win2K, most clients are Win2K, NT, 2003 and a few AIX. Does that help? -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: directory management class Hello Everyone! I am currently creating a new TSM environment and I would like to create a disk storage pool for the directories and then make offsite copies to tape. I will have approximately 5 domains and I was wondering if it would be wrong to put all 5 server domain directories in the disk pool? Should they be seperate? I had sent out an earlier question concering directory management classes, but I haven't received any responses. Any help would be appreciated concerning this topic! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TSM on Windows
One of our NT guys pointed out that the TSM database service on the TSM server has over 250,000 file handles. I have seen it peek at over 300,000 file handles. Is this normal? TIA ... JC
Re: TSM on Windows
Joe, Yes, that is whee we see it. I heard from an admin working for another company that if they see their web server start to get many (i.e. 12,000 or so) they schedule a theraputic reboot. I assume these handles are I/O or socket handles that are used to open an close and control the data structures needed for the opening and closing of I/O or socket communcations, but that is just a guess. This just makes me think that they consume memory and if they are not needed, then we might be concerned as an effective memory leak. ... Jack -Original Message- From: Joe Crnjanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM on Windows Is this Handles in task manager? Our goes over a 1,000,000. When I discovered it I was kind of afraid; when I shut down server service it goes back to something normal ( I think ~50,000). I did research on Microsoft knowledgebase and TSM support site- found nothing and gave up. Anyway if you find more about this I would like to know also. I know I didn't help, but sharing info is always good. Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Phone: 416-235-0931 x26 Fax: 416-235-0265 Web: www.infinitynetwork.com -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM on Windows One of our NT guys pointed out that the TSM database service on the TSM server has over 250,000 file handles. I have seen it peek at over 300,000 file handles. Is this normal? TIA ... JC
Re: TSM on Windows
Neil, Thanks greatly for the info and tutoral on the handles! Yep, I agree that in summary more can be done to tune a system by proper applications design and implementation than any systems geek can ever do to tune it. (Speaking as an old systems geen and application designer an a former life.) I see IBM has a problem if they are trying to keep the same code tree for all platforms, and I have no idea if they are or not (it makes sense to, whenever they can... saves lots of time and money on code support). ... jack -Original Message- From: Neil Schofield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 6:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM on Windows Jack 300,000 is perfectly normal. Ours all run at over 1,000,000. The number of handles is proportional to your database bufferpool size. There's an IBM article about it (try http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21112140). To summarise, each 4kb buffer pool page requires the creation of four 'conditions', and each 'condition' requires the creation of a minimum of two Windows 'events'. Each 'event' in turn requires a handle so, doing the maths, 128Mb of buffer pool requires a minimum of 262144 handles. I could live with this, if it weren't for one horrendous side effect. Each event/handle requires 64 bytes of non-paged pool memory. This is hidden in the kernel-mode usage, rather than being visible in the non-paged pool memory of the user-mode DSMSVC.EXE process. (For anyone familiar with POOLMON.EXE, try enable pool tagging and monitoring the usage against the Even pool tag as you increase the BUFPOOLSIZE parameter in TSM.) Again doing the maths, 128Mb of buffer pool immediateley requires 16Mb of non-paged pool memory. Now non-paged pool memory is a pretty scarce resource in 32-bit Windows and 16Mb represents an awfully large chunk. We first encountered this problem when configuring a two-node cluster with each cluster node running a TSM instance using a 1Gb buffer pool. When testing the configuration in a failover scenario with both instances running on the same box, the system was trying to satisfy requests for 256Mb of non-paged pool memory. Windows 2000 simply can't handle this, regardless of the physical memory configuration. This makes TSM on Windows considerably less scalable than any other platform. I opened a PMR, but IBM claim this is a Windows architectural limit, and not a TSM issue. I still maintain that the problem is in the TSM design as the likes of Microsoft (eg SQL Server) and SAP design their buffering differently to avoid the large non-paged memory requirements. In the end, the PMR was closed and a DCR opened instead. My opinions only, for what they're worth. Regards Neil Schofield Yorkshire Water Services Ltd. Download walks around Yorkshire Water's reservoirs at http://www.yorkshirewater.com/yourenjoyment/main_walk.html The information in this e-mail is confidential and may also be legally privileged. The contents are intended for recipient only and are subject to the legal notice available at http://www.keldagroup.com/email.htm Yorkshire Water Services Limited Registered Office Western House Halifax Road Bradford BD6 2SZ Registered in England and Wales No 2366682
Re: TSM5.1.8: Can't Reclaim COPYPOOL Volume
consider doing a 'delete volume VOLNAME discarddata=yes' if the volume is really empty. I must do this on occasion, but I don't like it. Sometimes it happens if there had been a read error on the tape. -Original Message- From: Dwight McCann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 6:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM5.1.8: Can't Reclaim COPYPOOL Volume I normally reclaim offsite copypool volumes once a week. When the reclaim is complete, some volumes will be STATUS=EMPTY and ACCESS=OFFSITE. When I update the volume to ACCESS=READWRITE, it is dropped from the Copy storage pool and I can put it back into the scratchpool. I have a tape that is not working that way. It is 100% reclaimable, 0.0% used, has no CONTENT, but just won't go empty. Am I doing something wrong or am I confused or am I having a Senior Moment.? tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1q vol tsm011 f=d Volume Name: TSM011 Storage Pool Name: COPYPOOL Device Class Name: LTO2 Estimated Capacity (MB): 197,838.6 Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Full Access: Offsite Pct. Reclaimable Space: 100.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 5,681 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 09/17/2003 08:00:05 Approx. Date Last Read: 09/09/2003 06:51:14 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Last Update by (administrator): DWIGHT Last Update Date/Time: 07/13/2004 15:24:53 tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1update volume tsm011 access=readwrite Session established with server DATAPLUS_SERVER1: Windows Server Version 5, Release 1, Level 8.3 Server date/time: 07/13/2004 16:40:58 Last access: 07/13/2004 15:27:47 ANR2207I Volume TSM011 updated. tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1q vol tsm011 f=d Volume Name: TSM011 Storage Pool Name: COPYPOOL Device Class Name: LTO2 Estimated Capacity (MB): 197,838.6 Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Full Access: Read/Write Pct. Reclaimable Space: 100.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 5,681 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 09/17/2003 08:00:05 Approx. Date Last Read: 09/09/2003 06:51:14 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Last Update by (administrator): DWIGHT Last Update Date/Time: 07/13/2004 16:40:58 tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1q content tsm011 ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11. tsm: DATAPLUS_SERVER1q stgp copypool f=d Storage Pool Name: COPYPOOL Storage Pool Type: Copy Device Class Name: LTO2 Estimated Capacity (MB): 1,005,838,231.3 Pct Util: 0.2 Pct Migr: Pct Logical: 99.2 High Mig Pct: Low Mig Pct: Migration Delay: Migration Continue: Migration Processes: Next Storage Pool: Reclaim Storage Pool: Maximum Size Threshold: Access: Read/Write Description: Overflow Location: Cache Migrated Files?: Collocate?: No Reclamation Threshold: 100 Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: 5,000 Delay Period for Volume Reuse: 0 Day(s) Migration in Progress?: Amount Migrated (MB): Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): Reclamation in Progress?: No Volume Being Migrated/Reclaimed: Last Update by (administrator): DWIGHT Last Update Date/Time: 07/13/2004 15:32:40 Storage Pool Data Format: Native Copy Storage Pool(s): Continue Copy on Error?: CRC Data: No -- Dwight McCann Computer and Network Technologist, UCSB Info Systems Computing [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://borg.isc.ucsb.edu/dmm/ - office: 805-893-3113
Re: Emergency .. HELP
I doubt there are many around tonight. I suggest calling IBM at 1-800-IBM-SERV to get assistance. I had a recovery log issue recently, but not an architecture limit issue. Sorry. -Original Message- From: Hashim, Shukrie BSP-IMI/211 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Emergency .. HELP Hi there I have reached my maximum extention of recovery log of 13 gb ... now I can't even extend it so I can't log in and do a database back up ... can someone tell me how to delete some of the recovery log ... is there any other way ? Shukrie
Upgrade...
Any know issues in doing an upgrade from TSM server 4.2.3.1 to the current TSM (5.2? or 5.3?) Does someone remember where I can download this from? We just got the last Novell 4.11 off of TSM backups so we can upgrade TSM now! Whoopee! Oh yea, his is Windows 2000 Server. Thanks ... Jack
Log file filled up -- how to extend? -- URGENT!
About 4AM this morning, it appears that my TSMseverer (windows 2K, TSM server 4.3) won't start. I try starting the sever in a console window and it tells me that the log files are over full. How can I add another log file and format it without having the server start? (the log files I watch daily and have never been over their high water mark of about 78% full, and I have 6G allocated for a database of about 30G) Suggestions? ...
Re: Log file filled up -- how to extend? -- URGENT!
Thanks! To ALL that replied. I knew it was in the manual, I just couldn't find it and had a panic attack! This list is a 'lifesaver'. It provides support and advice when needed. Thanks again to all! ... Jack
