Re: New 6.2 servers
I'd recommend 4 vg's for the data base, a vg for the active log, and a vg for the archive log. Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT andy.hueb...@alconlabs.com 7/28/2011 11:50 AM Does anyone have any under documented tuning tips for TSM 6.2 on AIX? We are going to build new systems next week. AIX 6.1 P6 - 2 CPU 32GB RAM TSM 6.2.? Any SAN disk config I want. (within reason) All SAN disks are RAID 5 thin provisioned. Should I split the DB onto multiple drives? (TSM 5.4 DB is 165GB @ 70% used) Separate log drive, but how big? Thank you, Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
Re: Rman not deleting old backups
Yes, that's what I was looking for. Thanks, David Ehresman David Bronder david-bron...@uiowa.edu 7/22/2011 8:18 PM David E Ehresman wrote: Awhile back someone shared on this list their commands/scripts for verifying that rman was not leaving any old backups on the TSM server. I can't seem to find it now. Ring a bell with anyone? David, is this the thread you're remembering (both Eric van Loon I provided select statements that seem related to what you're looking for)? Nested SQL? http://www.mail-archive.com/adsm-l@vm.marist.edu/msg82918.html (My Oracle DBA just cleaned up about 45 TB of stale/orphaned/obsolete RMAN backups based on the report I send him monthly...) -- Hello World.David Bronder - Systems Admin Segmentation Fault ITS-EI, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. david-bron...@uiowa.edu
Rman not deleting old backups
Awhile back someone shared on this list their commands/scripts for verifying that rman was not leaving any old backups on the TSM server. I can't seem to find it now. Ring a bell with anyone? David
Re: How do you deal with the 7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012--9C450E1B7327-2P-1.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0 file
Andy, Is there any indication in the Windows client dsmsched.log that VSS shadow copy was used to backup the local drives when the SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS is used? David Ehresman University of Louisville Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com 7/20/2011 10:08 AM Hi Zoltan, Your questions are somewhat timely. We are actually reviewing the need to back up and/or restore these files at all, but for now, it is probably best to at least back them up. The Microsoft VSS, including the Microsoft VSS snapshot provider, is installed and enabled with all Windows OSes from Windows 2003 and up. System state backup uses VSS. So enabling OFS with VSS as the snapshot provider, as I suggested, doesn't require anything more than: 1. Updating the client options file 2. Restarting the client scheduler if you do not use the CAD to manage the scheduler Having said that, these files are part of the system state, and since system state is backed up using VSS, I'm surprised to see them processed as part of the C: drive. Are there any other warning or error messages appearing in the dsmerror.log file during system state backup? Best regards, Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2011-07-20 09:33:20: From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 2011-07-20 09:35 Subject: Re: How do you deal with the 7B296FB0-376B-497e- B012--9C450E1B7327-2P-1.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0 file Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Andy, Thanks for the tips/suggestion. I will pass it on. Unfortunately, folks around here don't seem to want to use OFS/low-level drivers, especially since it usually requires a reboot when installing/updating. Do you know if this filename will be consistent so that I can exclude it from this and future systems? Or is this some recent voodoo that M$ has pushed down in black Tuesday updates? Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html From: Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 07/20/2011 09:20 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How do you deal with the 7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012--9C450E1B7327-2P-1.C7483456- A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0 file Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Hi Zoltan, I recommend using OFS to back up Windows systems, with VSS as snapshot provider. Add the following to your dsm.opt file: SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS That will ensure that all in-use files are backed up, as well as ensure a crash-consistent backup of the drive. Best regards, Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Hartford/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/ Tivoli_Storage_Manager ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2011-07-20 08:59:43: From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 2011-07-20 09:09 Subject: How do you deal with the 7B296FB0-376B-497e- B012--9C450E1B7327-2P-1.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0 file Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu This is more for Andy R but all suggestions/feedback are appreciated. I have a new Windows 2K8 node that is having heartburn with these errors: 07/11/2011 14:50:40 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\domino37\c$\Windows\System32\7B296FB0-376B-497e- B012-9C450E1B7327-2P-0.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0' failed 07/11/2011 14:50:40 ANS4987E Error processing '\\domino37\c$\Windows\System32\7B296FB0-376B-497e- B012-9C450E1B7327-2P-0.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0': the object is in use by another process 07/11/2011 14:50:40 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\domino37\c$\Windows\System32\7B296FB0-376B-497e- B012-9C450E1B7327-2P-1.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0' failed 07/11/2011 14:50:40 ANS4987E Error processing '\\domino37\c$\Windows\System32\7B296FB0-376B-497e- B012-9C450E1B7327-2P-1.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0': the object is in use by another process 07/11/2011 14:53:29 ANS1802E Incremental backup of '\\domino37\c$' finished with 2 failure Googling I found this (thank you M$ for finding
Systemstate
If a Windows client (v6.2) excludes a file is part of the Systemstate backup, is that file still backed up as part of the systemstate? David
Re: NetApp NDMP backups to TSM server?
Paul, Look at BACKUP NODE in the TSM Admin Reference. David Ehresman Paul Zarnowski p...@cornell.edu 7/15/2011 9:14 AM I thought I read somewhere that you could configure NetApp servers to direct their NDMP backup data stream to a TSM server (over IP network) instead of to an attached tape drive. I am having trouble finding this documented anywhere, however, and am beginning to doubt my memory. Can anyone tell me definitively whether this is possible or not? Thanks. -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em: p...@cornell.edu
copygroups
Is there a way to tell if a given copygroup is actually being used on TSM 6.2.2? David Ehresman
Re: copygroups
If a session tries to use a non-existent copygroup, does it fail or does it use the default for that management class? David Prather, Wanda wprat...@icfi.com 7/14/2011 1:12 PM AFAIK, the only way is to search the BACKUPS table. OK idea if you can narrow the search to a single client at a time; bad idea otherwise. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 9:22 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] copygroups Is there a way to tell if a given copygroup is actually being used on TSM 6.2.2? David Ehresman
Re: Can't backup 6.2 server after library switch
Have you done an audit library on the 6.2 server? It almost sounds like it has a different view of your scratch tapes than the LM does. David Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu 7/6/2011 12:17 PM Servers are RH Linux 6.2.2.2 and 6.1.4.3 Last week, we had some strange issues (don't ask - this one is for Shark Tank) with one of our 6.2.2.2 TSM servers, which is one of 2-Library Managers for our 3494ATL. So, in the interim we quickly moved the LM function to my 6.1.4.3 server, shuffled all tape drives, paths and tapes, updated all server devclasses, etc. Now, the 6.2 server that was the LM refuses to perform a DB backup to the 6.1 LM server. Other tape processing (migrate, backup stgpool) seems to work just fine. The error I get is: 7/6/2011 11:09:15 AM ANR8448E Scratch volume insert-volume-name-here from library IBM-TS1130 rejected - volume name is already in use. which it repeats for 19-iterations and then fails with: 7/6/2011 11:24:00 AM ANR2971E Database backup/restore/rollforward terminated - DB2 sqlcode -2025 error. All the tapes it is given are scratch. It proceeds to lock down all the tapes as if they were in use/private and I have to manually perform delete volhist .. force=yes on the 6.1 LM server. I have done a few Google searches and all I find are references to the book on the ANR2971E error messages telling me to give it a scratch tape. Any thoughts? Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
Re: Can't backup 6.2 server after library switch
An audit library run on a library client claims all the tapes that the library manager has that belong to the client. You'll want to use the checklabel=barcode and run it at a time that tape volumes are not in use. David Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu 7/6/2011 2:32 PM Funny you should mention audit. Why would I do an audit on a server that is a library client? I don't think that is possible. I tried to do an audit on the now library manager/6.1.4.3 server - both checklabel=barcode and just a simple audit library. After running for 1-hour (and hanging up all pending tape mounts), I killed it. From: David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 07/06/2011 02:19 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Can't backup 6.2 server after library switch Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Have you done an audit library on the 6.2 server? It almost sounds like it has a different view of your scratch tapes than the LM does. David Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu 7/6/2011 12:17 PM Servers are RH Linux 6.2.2.2 and 6.1.4.3 Last week, we had some strange issues (don't ask - this one is for Shark Tank) with one of our 6.2.2.2 TSM servers, which is one of 2-Library Managers for our 3494ATL. So, in the interim we quickly moved the LM function to my 6.1.4.3 server, shuffled all tape drives, paths and tapes, updated all server devclasses, etc. Now, the 6.2 server that was the LM refuses to perform a DB backup to the 6.1 LM server. Other tape processing (migrate, backup stgpool) seems to work just fine. The error I get is: 7/6/2011 11:09:15 AM ANR8448E Scratch volume insert-volume-name-here from library IBM-TS1130 rejected - volume name is already in use. which it repeats for 19-iterations and then fails with: 7/6/2011 11:24:00 AM ANR2971E Database backup/restore/rollforward terminated - DB2 sqlcode -2025 error. All the tapes it is given are scratch. It proceeds to lock down all the tapes as if they were in use/private and I have to manually perform delete volhist .. force=yes on the 6.1 LM server. I have done a few Google searches and all I find are references to the book on the ANR2971E error messages telling me to give it a scratch tape. Any thoughts? Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
Re: Deduplication and Collocation
Client side dedup is only done to a dedup storagepool which means the storagepool has to be a FILE type storagepool. Roger Deschner rog...@uic.edu 6/22/2011 2:37 AM Back to client side dedupe, which we're about to deploy for a branch campus 90 miles away in Rockford IL. The data is sent from the clients in Rockford via tin cans and string to the TSM server in Chicago already dedpued. We're using source dedupe because the network bandwidth is somewhat limited. So if it is received into a DEVCLASS DISK stgpool, then I assume it is still deduped, because that's how it arrived. Then finally when it's migrated to tape, we've already established that it gets reinflated, and then you can collocate or not as you wish. But the question is, does this imply that deduped data CAN exist in random access DEVCLASS DISK stgpools if client-side dedupe is being used? I sure hope so, because that's what we're planning to do. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu == You will finish your project ahead of schedule. === = (Best fortune-cookie fortune ever.) == On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Paul Zarnowski wrote: Even if a FILE devclass has dedup turned on, when the data is migrated, reclaimed, or backed up (backup stgpool) to tape, then the files are reconstructed from their pieces. You cannot dedup on DISK stgpools. DISK implies random access disk - e.g., devclass DISK. FILE implies serial access disk - e.g., devclass FILE. But I think there is still an open question about collocation and deduplication. Deduplication must be done using FILE stgpools, but FILE stgpools CAN use collocation. I don't know what happens in this case. ..Paul At 02:38 PM 6/21/2011, Prather, Wanda wrote: If it is a file device class with dedup turned off, yes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Mooney Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 2:29 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Deduplication and Collocation So data is deduplicated in a disk storage pool but when it is written to tape the entire reconstructed file is written out? Is this the same for file device classes? -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em: p...@cornell.edu
Re: EMERGENCY QUESTION: RESTORE ONLY PERMISSIONS?
And TSM only keeps one version of unix permissions. So once a backup is done with the changed permissions, there is no TSM way to restore them back to what they were before. David Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 6/17/2011 1:45 PM Hi Everyone, I was just contacted and told that something changed group ownership on every file starting in / (root), so what I'm asking is, is there anyway to just restore permissions only and not the actual data? This is for a Solaris TSM client. Just let me know. Thanks so much in advance! Joni This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates.
Re: Performance in 6.2.2.x with Win2k8 64bit?
I've not had any problems with the 6.2.2.x 64b client on Windows. Prather, Wanda wprat...@icfi.com 6/16/2011 12:32 AM Can anyone who has converted from V5 to V6.2.2.0 or V6.2.2.2 on Win2K8 64b confirm for me that you are running OK? Have a customer who did the conversion from V5 on Win2K3 32b to V6.2.2.2 on Win2K8 64b and new server hardware. Performance is measurably degraded. Background processes are slower by 10-18%; client backups are showing commwait increased by an order of magnitude. I'm suspecting it's in the hardware config somewhere, but can't find it. If anybody can confirm upgrade success on Win2K8 64b I would appreciate it before I go upgrade anyone to this level. :) Thanks! Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wprat...@icfi.commailto:wprat...@icfi.com | www.jasi.comwww.jasi.com%20 ICF Jacob Sundstrom | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135
Re: bare machine recovery for mainframe operating systems
FDR (and probably other mainframe backup products) support BMR. Mehdi Salehi ezzo...@gmail.com 6/15/2011 5:49 AM Hi, Is the concept of bare machine recovery applicable for z/OS and other mainframe operating systems like zLinux? Thank you, Mehdi
Re: TSM dedup stgpools
To see if the frequent TSM server crashes will stop. Stefan Folkerts stefan.folke...@gmail.com 6/11/2011 2:34 AM ( mailto:stefan.folke...@gmail.com ) May I ask you what the reason is you are turning of dedupe?
TSM Suite for Unified Recovery
I haven't heard anyone talking about this recently announced offering. Is IBM finally responding to complaints about their pricing structure? Is it really likely to contain costs? http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS211-201/ENUS211-201.PDF
TSM dedup stgpools
What happens when I update a stgpool that has DEDUP=YES back to DEDUP=NO? Does the dedup data stay deduped and the new data is stored in full? Or does TSM invoke a reconstitute process to inflate the data back to its original form?
Capacity based license
Is there anyone who has switched to capacity based licensing that would be willing to talk to me about their experience? If so, contact me at deehr...@louisville.edu David Ehresman University of Louisville
Backup of dedup pool stalled
I am running a backup stg ex-dsk ex-ofl maxpr=2 against a dedup FILE storagepool. One of the processes is stalled: 655 Backup Storage Pool Primary Pool EX-DSK, Copy Pool EX-OFL, Files Backed Up: 233013, Bytes Backed Up: 41,393,734,786, Unreadable Files: 0, Unreadable Bytes: 0. Current Physical File (bytes): None Current input volume: /tsm/dedup/V386633623.BFS. Current output volume(s): 100766JA. There is no Current Physical File and the number of Files Backed Up is not increasing. The 2nd process is continue to backup data. Any ideas why this process might be stalled instead of ending? David
Re: TSM server hang on 6.2.2.2/AIX
YES. Our problems were 'del vol' not macros, and were tied in with the win 2008 systemstate issues. TSM server 6.2.2.30 helped a lot. David Prather, Wanda wprat...@icfi.com 5/31/2011 11:38 AM Anybody had issues with the TSM server 6.2.2.2 hanging when running a macro, or running delete vols in succession? I can reproduce problem with 6.2.2.2 on AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.1 with this macro: delete vol blah1 discardd=yes wait=yes delete vol blah2 discardd=yes wait=yes delete vol blah3 discardd=yes wait=yes delete vol blah4 discardd=yes wait=yes Not sure whether the issue is the macro or the delvols... Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wprat...@icfi.commailto:wprat...@icfi.com | www.jasi.comwww.jasi.com%20 ICF Jacob Sundstrom | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135
Re: ANR8420E messages
My guess is there is a problem talking to the library controller. I would try setting the library path offline and then online. David Thomas Denier thomas.den...@jeffersonhospital.org 5/25/2011 4:06 PM We have been testing a TSM library manager. It is a TSM 6.2.2.0 instance running under mainframe Linux. The tape drives we have been using for tests are FCP-attached TS1120 drives in a 3494 library. A couple of weeks ago we updated a drive to 'online=no' in our production environment and used the drive for testing. We had no trouble defining the drive and the associated paths on the library manager and running tape operations on the library manager clients. We deleted the paths to the drive and the drive itself from the library manager at the end of the day, but left the library and the path to it defined. We tried a similar test today with two drives. We were able to execute 'define drive' commands on the library manager, but every attempt to define a path from the library manager to one of the drives has failed with a message like: ANR8420E DEFINE PATH: An I/O error occurred while accessing drive IBM7895753. We have checked the command syntax carefully, and we have verified that itdt (the successor to IBMtapeutil) can communicate with the drives. Messages like the one above are the only diagnostic information in the activity log. Executing 'set tapealertmsg on' does not change this. The TSM server code obviously had information it did not reveal about which system call failed and the nature of the failure. Is there any option or command which will cause the server code to reveal this information?
VMWare backups
Anyone using the new VMware features in v6.2.2 to do a backup vm using the vstorage APIs and using the VMHOST= option to specify the VMware server to back up? If so, how's it working for you? Are the backups multi-threaded or does it backup just one VM at a time? What resourceutilization and maxnummp settings are you using the the vstorage proxy node? David
Re: Identify Duplicates Idle vs Active state?
What does the %1A. in like ''%1A.%active%'' having count(*) 1 ' test for? Colwell, William F. bcolw...@draper.com 5/25/2011 11:17 AM Hi Harold, I am running 6.1 with dedup and have coded scripts to check the id dup processes before proceeding. Here is a snippet - upd scr start_migration 'select count(*) from processes where substr(process,1,1)=''I'' -' upd scr start_migration ' and status like ''%1A.%active%'' having count(*) 1 ' upd scr start_migration 'if(rc_notfound) goto reschedule' The sql is looking for any still id dup processes still active - I run 3 processes for each 'landing zone' pool. If none are active, the select returns a value (0) and the logic falls thru to start migration. Hope this helps, Bill Colwell Draper Lab -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 2:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Identify Duplicates Idle vs Active state? I'm working up scripting for our TSM 6.2 system where dedup will be implemented. Is there a way to test for the IDLE state of an IDENTIFY DUPLICATES process? I'd like to have our script test for the idle state to allow the next set of work to proceed as soon as possible. We've used IF(RC_OK) in TSM 5.x scripts to test for upper(process) = BACKUP STORGE POOL or upper(session_type) = NODE, but I don't see a way to detect that idle vs. active state on identify duplicates processes. Thanks... Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - DISC harold.vandeven...@da.ks.govmailto:dane.woodr...@da.ks.gov (785) 296-0631
Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code
Andrew Raibeck stor...@us.ibm.com 5/16/2011 2:04 PM Some things that can pin the recovery log: - NDMP backups that span more than one tape (the pin occurs at the time the first tape starts to rewind and another tape is needed) At what point does the NDMP induced pinning get released?
Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code
Eric, Pointing out the obvious here, but if you really can't afford to move to TSM v6 then its time for you to start planning your move to something else. Support for TSM 5 will be dropped sometime and I suspect the move from TSM to something else will take some planning. David Loon, EJ van - SPLXO eric-van.l...@klm.com 5/12/2011 8:56 AM Hi Steve! If it would be possible, I would have already done that, but migrating our servers from 5.5 to 6.2 would require multiple days of downtime. Simple not acceptable in our shop... Kind regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Fielding Sent: donderdag 12 mei 2011 14:33 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code You could also go to TSM 6.2, which changes to DB2 and changes the way recovery logs are dealt with, including allowing for much, much more log On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Steve Roder s...@buffalo.edu wrote: What's pinning your log? Do a show logpinned, and then look at what that client is doing. If it is a TDP, they are known for pinning the log and causing these kinds of issues. We see this issue also, and it is nearly always caused by an Oracle TDP or an Exchange TDP backup. Thanks, Steve Hi Paul! We are already running 5.5.5.2 and the log is still filling up, even after switching from rollforward to normal mode. Management currently is questioning whether TSM is the right product for the future. Although I'm a big fan of TSM for 15 years, I'm really in doubt too... Kind regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Fielding Sent: woensdag 11 mei 2011 20:05 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code Hi folks, if this has already been commented on, my apologies, I hvaen't been following closely but just noticed this thread. We were experiencing log pinned issues after upgrading to 5.5.0.0 code at one of my client sites. What we were finding was that, occasionally, I'd get up in the morning and look at the server to see it completely bogged down with a huge number of backups still attempting to run, but nothing was moving - the log was at 84% (over it's trigger), and it had been firing off db backups for the last 4h to no avail, the log wasn't getting low enough. A key symptom was that in the actlog we were seeing messages to the effect of Recovery log is at 84%, transactions will be delayed by 3ms (or something like that). In opening a ticket, it was found there was an issue in the 5.5.0.0 code where, when the recovery log gets too full, it would start delaying transactions in order to prevent the log from filling too quickly. However, the side effect was that the pinning transaction would also get delayed, causing a bit of a never-ending loop. Transactions keep getting delayed, pinned transaction never gets to finish, and everything would just grind to a halt. I would have to halt the server and restart in order to get things back to normal. IBM recognized this as an issue and recommended going to any 5.5.5.0 level of code, where the problem was supposed to be fixed. I installed 5.5.5.2, and the problem has indeed gone away. It was supposed to be fixed at 5.5.5.0, though perhaps they didn't quite get it done at that code level as they hoped? I'd try installing 5.5.5.2 and see what happens regards, Paul On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Loon, EJ van - SPLXO eric-van.l...@klm.com wrote: Hi Robert! Thanks you very much for your reply! Several others on this list reported this behavior and (as far as I know) three other users opened a PMR too. I hope they have more luck, because I'm stuck. Level 2 keeps on saying that the log keeps on growing because of slow running client sessions. Indeed I see slow running client sessions, but they are slowed down by the fact that TSM is delaying all transactions because the log is used for more that 80% during a large part of the backup window! Now they refuse to help me, unless I buy a Passport Advantage contract!! Kind regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Clark Sent: woensdag 11 mei 2011 16:05 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Recovery log is pinning since upgrade to 5.5.5.0 code I believe we've been seeing this problem as well. One night in the busiest backup period, I issued a q actlog begint=now-00:30, and got no results back but an error. I started dsmadmc -console on that server, and could see that the console output was most of an hour behind. (And the console output was scrolling so fast that it could barely
Re: Expiration causes backups to hang
Where might one find the 6.2.2.30 patch? Zoltan Forray zforray@gmail.com 4/24/2011 7:46 AM 6.2.2.30 is out as an official patch. On Apr 24, 2011 7:33 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim bull...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is resolved. We upgraded from 6.2.2.0 to 6.2.2.25(6.2.2.2 patch + efix) and expiration rates are 5-10 times higher and no hangs yet. We observe that System State expirations from 2008 servers are much faster now. Hans Chr. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim bull...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, anyone else have this problem? Running 6.2.2 on AIX 6.1. Submitting a PMR on this in parallell. When I say hang I mean a complete hang. All incoming backups stops. Traffic is resumed when we cancel expiration. Hans Chr.
Re: Expiration causes backups to hang
OK. I was only checking for the AIX version which is still not posted. I do see the Linux version now that I looked for it. David Zoltan Forray zforray@gmail.com 4/25/2011 8:59 AM I run the Linux version and get it directly from the FTP site so mine is at: FTP://service.boulder.ibm.com//storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/Linux/6.2.2.30/6.2.2.30-TIV-TSMALL-Linuxx86_64.bin On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:19 AM, David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.eduwrote: Where might one find the 6.2.2.30 patch? Zoltan Forray zforray@gmail.com 4/24/2011 7:46 AM 6.2.2.30 is out as an official patch. On Apr 24, 2011 7:33 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim bull...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is resolved. We upgraded from 6.2.2.0 to 6.2.2.25(6.2.2.2 patch + efix) and expiration rates are 5-10 times higher and no hangs yet. We observe that System State expirations from 2008 servers are much faster now. Hans Chr. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim bull...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, anyone else have this problem? Running 6.2.2 on AIX 6.1. Submitting a PMR on this in parallell. When I say hang I mean a complete hang. All incoming backups stops. Traffic is resumed when we cancel expiration. Hans Chr. -- Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
Re: Expiration causes backups to hang
Yes it is. But it just showed up between the time of my last email and when you looked. Don't believe the timestamp on the directory! Thanks, David Zoltan Forray zforray@gmail.com 4/25/2011 9:18 AM Huh? AIX version is here: FTP://service.boulder.ibm.com//storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/AIX/6.2.2.30/6.2.2.30-TIV-TSMALL-AIX.bin On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:11 AM, David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.eduwrote: OK. I was only checking for the AIX version which is still not posted. I do see the Linux version now that I looked for it. David Zoltan Forray zforray@gmail.com 4/25/2011 8:59 AM I run the Linux version and get it directly from the FTP site so mine is at: FTP://service.boulder.ibm.com//storage/tivoli-storage-management/patches/server/Linux/6.2.2.30/6.2.2.30-TIV-TSMALL-Linuxx86_64.bin On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:19 AM, David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.eduwrote: Where might one find the 6.2.2.30 patch? Zoltan Forray zforray@gmail.com 4/24/2011 7:46 AM 6.2.2.30 is out as an official patch. On Apr 24, 2011 7:33 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim bull...@gmail.com wrote: Problem is resolved. We upgraded from 6.2.2.0 to 6.2.2.25(6.2.2.2 patch + efix) and expiration rates are 5-10 times higher and no hangs yet. We observe that System State expirations from 2008 servers are much faster now. Hans Chr. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim bull...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, anyone else have this problem? Running 6.2.2 on AIX 6.1. Submitting a PMR on this in parallell. When I say hang I mean a complete hang. All incoming backups stops. Traffic is resumed when we cancel expiration. Hans Chr. -- Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html -- Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
TSM on AIX and Linux
Can a AIX 5.3 TSM v 6.2.2.0 DB backup be restored to a Linux RedHat system? David
Re: TDp and retention settings question
is that the case? tdp manages the inactivating of the prior full on the TSM side? so this can be related to be akin to similar to a file backup where once the file is deleted (or marked inactive by TDP) the backup falls under the 30 day expiration window. With rman and TSM for DB (oracle), each backup file that TSM gets is a unique name. Therefore it is always active to TSM and TSM won't expire it. From the Data Protection for Oracle for UNIX and Linux Installation and User’s Guide manual: RMAN uses the format parameter (in the RMAN script) to generate unique backup file names. Because all backup objects inserted into the Tivoli Storage Manager backup storage pool have unique file names, they never expire on the Tivoli Storage Manager server. As a result, Data Protection for Oracle requires these special Tivoli Storage Manager policy domain settings: Backup copy group values Data Protection for Oracle provides the tdposync utility to remove unwanted backup objects from the Tivoli Storage Manager server. It is recommended that the following Tivoli Storage Manager backup copy group options be set: v verdeleted 0 v retonly 0Then, when Data Protection for Oracle marks a backup object inactive, that object is deleted from the Tivoli Storage Manager server the next time expiration processing occurs. A backup object is marked for immediate expiration when you delete it through RMAN using the Data Protection for Oracle interface or with the tdposync utility. Note that an inactive backup object cannot be restored through RMAN using the Data Protection for Oracle interface. Notes: 1. The Tivoli Storage Manager administrator must also register your node by specifying backdelete yes in order for backup objects to be deleted. However, be aware that a backup object is marked for immediate expiration when backdelete yes and you delete it through RMAN using the Data Protection for Oracle interface or with the tdposync utility. js1000 tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com 4/6/2011 3:59 PM The posting doesn't specify which TDP, which would help understanding. TDP for sql with a variety of different versions depending on which server Which means that to TSM they are all active backups and TSM will therefore not expire them. They have to be expired/deleted from the TDP side, e.g. rman for oracle. is that the case? tdp manages the inactivating of the prior full on the TSM side? so this can be related to be akin to similar to a file backup where once the file is deleted (or marked inactive by TDP) the backup falls under the 30 day expiration window. +-- |This was sent by jonathan.s...@osumc.edu via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--
Re: TDp and retention settings question
but typically the name used in tsm in a unique name each backup. Which means that to TSM they are all active backups and TSM will therefore not expire them. They have to be expired/deleted from the TDP side, e.g. rman for oracle. David Dwight Cook coo...@cox.net 4/6/2011 11:56 AM From the tsm server use Q file tdp_node_name Then Show version tdp_node_name fsid nametype=fsid To see the actual file names that TSM is saving your tdp data under... If varies across tdp products but typically the name used in tsm in a unique name each backup. Dwight -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of js1000 Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 9:26 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TDp and retention settings question I'm trying to find the missing link in what i see setup versus what i can see out of the tdp gui in terms of inactive/active versions listed. the copygroup policy settings for this tdp node as a such: Versions Data Exists: No Limit Versions Data Deleted: No Limit Retain Extra Versions: 14 Retain Only Version: 30 tdp is set to backup full daily. When firing up the tdp gui on the node, i see 26 inactive and 1 active full backups ready for restore. my question is the relationship between the settings and the number of backups i see. in my thinking, i'm considering the daily fulls as the same object or file to tsm. in this case, we would be grabbing different versions of the same file, wouldnt the 14 day version setting kick in and i should only see 14 inactives and 1 active full? but i see nearly 30 inactives with different object ids. so is the process that tsm considers each full backup a different object/file? Seems to be true given the differing object ids. if that is the case, is the link i'm missing is that TDP in the process of backing up the nightly full, deletes the prior day's full. This sends the file to inactive state in tsm and then subject to the retain only version setting? other posts have suggested matching the extra versions and only versions settings. what's the implication in doing so? Thanks! +-- |This was sent by jonathan.s...@osumc.edu via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--
Re: ANR8939E on new TSM server
Never mind. You said Windows. Bill Boyer bjdbo...@verizon.net 4/4/2011 1:18 PM Windows 2008R2 and an Adaptec 29320LPE SCSI adapter connected to TS3310 and LTO3 drives. ANR8337I LTO volume 646AFAL3 mounted in drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5). ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) cannot handle the block size needed to use the volume. ANR8468I LTO volume 646AFAL3 dismounted from drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) in library TS3310. ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 646AFAL3 - mount failed. This replaced an older TSM server and right now any tapes that were created on the old system give the ANR8939E message and won't mount. The ANR8939E message refers to setting the MAXNUMSGLIST parameter for the HBA.I have SCSI! I did find an entry on the ADSL-L archive from March 2009 saying that the LPE card wouldn't work with TSM as it doesn't support the 256K buffer used by TSM. New tapes created from beginning of tape work just fine on this new system. Although it seems that the performance just isn't there considering LTO3 drives. (http://adsm.org/forum/showthread.php?17292-Restore-of-TSM-database-to-DR-se rver-failing/page2) Anyone using this adapter with TSM? This is one of those PCI-e cards. I'm getting information on replacing the riser in my 3550 M2 server and going back to the PCI-x 29320ALP adapter. That one I'm pretty confident with. The ANR8939E says to set the MAXNUMSGLIST to 0x41.and that's what is currently set in the registry for this LPE adapter. Tried the latest Adaptec driver 7.0.0.12 and reverted back to the default Windows driver that gets installed with Windows 2008. Same thing. I have a PMR open with IBM Tivoli support, but they just want to close it out as a hardware issue. I'm not getting any error/warning messages in the eventlog for Windows or anything. Just the ANR8939E and can't get at my data! Any help is greatly appreciated! Bill Boyer
Re: ANR8939E on new TSM server
Do you have the appropriate lintape drive installed? David Bill Boyer bjdbo...@verizon.net 4/4/2011 1:18 PM Windows 2008R2 and an Adaptec 29320LPE SCSI adapter connected to TS3310 and LTO3 drives. ANR8337I LTO volume 646AFAL3 mounted in drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5). ANR8939E The adapter for tape drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) cannot handle the block size needed to use the volume. ANR8468I LTO volume 646AFAL3 dismounted from drive LTO1 (mt1.0.0.5) in library TS3310. ANR1401W Mount request denied for volume 646AFAL3 - mount failed. This replaced an older TSM server and right now any tapes that were created on the old system give the ANR8939E message and won't mount. The ANR8939E message refers to setting the MAXNUMSGLIST parameter for the HBA.I have SCSI! I did find an entry on the ADSL-L archive from March 2009 saying that the LPE card wouldn't work with TSM as it doesn't support the 256K buffer used by TSM. New tapes created from beginning of tape work just fine on this new system. Although it seems that the performance just isn't there considering LTO3 drives. (http://adsm.org/forum/showthread.php?17292-Restore-of-TSM-database-to-DR-se rver-failing/page2) Anyone using this adapter with TSM? This is one of those PCI-e cards. I'm getting information on replacing the riser in my 3550 M2 server and going back to the PCI-x 29320ALP adapter. That one I'm pretty confident with. The ANR8939E says to set the MAXNUMSGLIST to 0x41.and that's what is currently set in the registry for this LPE adapter. Tried the latest Adaptec driver 7.0.0.12 and reverted back to the default Windows driver that gets installed with Windows 2008. Same thing. I have a PMR open with IBM Tivoli support, but they just want to close it out as a hardware issue. I'm not getting any error/warning messages in the eventlog for Windows or anything. Just the ANR8939E and can't get at my data! Any help is greatly appreciated! Bill Boyer
Client Autodeployment
Anyone tried Client Autodeployment? I'm running TSM 6.2.2.0 server on AIX 5.3. I tried my first autodeployment test yesterday. The autodeployment schedule did NOT have the allow client restart box checked. But the client was auto-restarted at the end of the install. Anyone experienced this behavior? David
TSM for DB password expiration
Has anyone had problems with TSM for DB (Oracle), aka TDPO, and password expiration? We are running TSM for DB v5.5.1.0 with TSM api 6.2.2.0 on AIX 5.3 to a TSM server at 6.2.2.0 also on AIX 5.3. We are running with password generate. Last night we got two ANR0425W password has expired messages for node DBFINTEST. I assume I got two messages because the rman command is using two channels, thus two concurrent TSM sessions. At that point the password should have been set to something new and life should go on. Instead, subsequent sessions for that node got the ANS0282E Password file is not available., ie password is incorrect, message. Any thoughts on what might be going wrong? David Ehresman
Re: Ang: TSM for DB password expiration
Are you saying that password generate does not work for TSM for DB? Daniel Sparrman daniel.sparr...@exist.se 3/25/2011 9:52 AM Hi David Correct me if I'm wrong, but when the nodes password has expired, passwordaccess generate will not set a new password for the client. You'll have to set a new password for the node, and then use tdpoconf to update the stored password on the client machine. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Datum: 03/25/2011 15:41 Ärende: TSM for DB password expiration Has anyone had problems with TSM for DB (Oracle), aka TDPO, and password expiration? We are running TSM for DB v5.5.1.0 with TSM api 6.2.2.0 on AIX 5.3 to a TSM server at 6.2.2.0 also on AIX 5.3. We are running with password generate. Last night we got two ANR0425W password has expired messages for node DBFINTEST. I assume I got two messages because the rman command is using two channels, thus two concurrent TSM sessions. At that point the password should have been set to something new and life should go on. Instead, subsequent sessions for that node got the ANS0282E Password file is not available., ie password is incorrect, message. Any thoughts on what might be going wrong? David Ehresman
Re: Ang: TSM for DB password expiration
And is Oracle TDP on Linux different than on AIX? Does password generate on linux? David Howard Coles howard.co...@ardenthealth.com 3/25/2011 11:21 AM For the Oracle TDP on AIX you have to set the passwordaccess option to prompt, as the TDP will NOT update the password. The best option here is to set the password expiration to 0 on both the node, and the admin owner (if you have it) of the node. However, what Daniel said is correct unless you run update node server-oracle passexp=0 AND update admin server-oracle passexp=0, then it will just keep on using the same password. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Daniel Sparrman Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 8:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Ang: TSM for DB password expiration Hi David Correct me if I'm wrong, but when the nodes password has expired, passwordaccess generate will not set a new password for the client. You'll have to set a new password for the node, and then use tdpoconf to update the stored password on the client machine. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU skrev: - Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Från: David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu Sänt av: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Datum: 03/25/2011 15:41 Ärende: TSM for DB password expiration Has anyone had problems with TSM for DB (Oracle), aka TDPO, and password expiration? We are running TSM for DB v5.5.1.0 with TSM api 6.2.2.0 on AIX 5.3 to a TSM server at 6.2.2.0 also on AIX 5.3. We are running with password generate. Last night we got two ANR0425W password has expired messages for node DBFINTEST. I assume I got two messages because the rman command is using two channels, thus two concurrent TSM sessions. At that point the password should have been set to something new and life should go on. Instead, subsequent sessions for that node got the ANS0282E Password file is not available., ie password is incorrect, message. Any thoughts on what might be going wrong? David Ehresman
Re: TSM v6.2.2 and Automated Reorgs
Pam, In Feb, Dave Canan gave a TSM v6.2.2 Technical Update where he discussed, among other things, reorgs and how to tell if they are happening. You can download the presentation from http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27020797 David Pagnotta, Pam (CONTR) pam.pagno...@hq.doe.gov 3/21/2011 4:42 PM Hello, Would someone please tell me if they are seeing ANR0293I and ANR0294I messages in their version 6.2.2 activity log? These messages have to do with the start and finish of automated reorganizations. I have told Level 2 support about 10 times, now, that I have never seen these messages in our logs, but I have not been able to get an answer as to why. We keep 120 days of activity log, so I have to believe that if these messages were actually being propagated, I would have seen them at least once in the past year. Do you know how to verify that automated reorganizations are running? I cannot find any indication that they are running successfully, failing or not running at all, and so far, the Level 2 Support people who have tried to help me also do not know how to determine this. It seems the answer is that since TSM is controlling the reorganizations, DB2 will not be reporting on them. We have a fairly large TSM database, 544GB with 466GB in use. I am fairly certain that with so little freespace, automatic, online reorganization of the larger tablespaces will not happen, but I have no way of verifying if TSM is even trying. I appreciate any feedback. Pam Pam Pagnotta EES, LLC, Contractor to the United States Department of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20585 Office: 301 903-5508 Mobile: 301 326-7296 Email: pam.pagno...@hq.doe.gov
Re: Scripts Doubling up
But at v6.2.2.0, a select * from processes does show a STATUS field. David Clark, Margaret mcl...@sddpc.org 3/16/2011 2:52 PM Syscat columns doesn't show a STATUS in the PROCESSES table any more. - Margaret Clark -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Howard Coles Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:51 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Scripts Doubling up Ladies and Gents, got another weird issue. TSM 6.2.2.1 Running the following script works when I preview it in the ISC: select process_num from processes where process='Backup Storage Pool' and status LIKE '%Pool AIXDSKPOOL%' if (rc_ok) goto reschedule backup stg aixpripool aixcppool maxproc=2 wait=no update sched daily_aix_proc type=admin cmd='RUN DAILY03_AIX_MIGSTG' starttime=now+00:30 active=yes exit reschedule: update schedule daily_aix_proc type=admin starttime=now+00:05 active=yes exit However, when it runs on its own apparently the select and if statement are no longer working. I have found the backup process running on the primary tape pool at the same time the diskpool backup is running. I haven't had time to redo all the scripts, but this should still function from all the tests I ran. My question is, what is wrong with the above script that it wouldn't work, at least for now, as written? Oh, here's the part of the previous script that kicks off the disk pool backup: backup stg aixdskpool aixcppool maxproc=2 wait=no update sched daily_aix_proc type=admin cmd='RUN DAILY02_AIX_BAKPRI' starttime=now+00:30 active=yes This process has worked very well, as we have 5 storage pools, that vary in length for each of the processes that run against them, (backup disk, backup primary tape, reclaim offsite, reclaim onsite, etc). See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!
Re: Cloning a Windows Server using TSM
For WIn 2008, I believe you are going to need the TSM Win v6.2.2.x client. Then follow the instructions in the TSM Windows Client v6.2.2 documentation. David Mario Behring mariobehr...@yahoo.com 2/23/2011 8:56 AM Hi all, How can I clone a Windows 2008 Server on a x32 machine with TSM BAC 5.5.4.0 client using TSM?? I need to be able to put this data into a tape (LTO4) and be able to restore it building a new machine exactly the same as the source one. Any help is appreciated. Regards, Mario
Re: Cloning a Windows Server using TSM
You may also want to look at pages 22-26 of the linked pdf below of a STE webinar earlier in the week on this topic: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27020797aid=1 David David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu 2/24/2011 11:20 AM For WIn 2008, I believe you are going to need the TSM Win v6.2.2.x client. Then follow the instructions in the TSM Windows Client v6.2.2 documentation. David Mario Behring mariobehr...@yahoo.com 2/23/2011 8:56 AM Hi all, How can I clone a Windows 2008 Server on a x32 machine with TSM BAC 5.5.4.0 client using TSM?? I need to be able to put this data into a tape (LTO4) and be able to restore it building a new machine exactly the same as the source one. Any help is appreciated. Regards, Mario
Re: TSM for Windows (2008 R2) client 6.2.2.0 and ForeFront 2010 upd.2
This is a classic description of a firewall blocking tsm from reaching the client cad. Unless you have a webports statement in you client options (dsm.opt for windows), dsmcad uses a random port. So in a firewalled world, you have to use webports to specify the port and then allow that port in your firewall. dsmwebcl.log on the client shows you at dsmcad startup time which port it is using. David Ehresman Rainer Holzinger rainerholzin...@gmx.de 2/11/2011 9:05 AM Hello all, I'm having 3 new Windwos 2008 R2 (64-bit) servers with TSM for Windows cleitn version 6.2.2.0 installed. The TSM clients are within a DMZ as well as the TSM servers. TSM client acceptor daemon is implemented to manage the TSM cleitn scheduler as well as the WEB client. On all three machines there is MS ForeFront 2010 upgrade 2 installed which is a MS firewall, most likely replaceing the formerly ISA product from Microsoft. All three TSM clients are configured with 'schedule mode = prompted'. For some unkonwn reason the TSM server is not prompting the TSM clients to start the backlup operations. However, when I'm restarting the TSM CAD service the backup begins, but just this one. Later scheduled backups do not start again as before. So it looks like only the TSM client is able to start a session with the TSM server. We have applied some 'inbound rules' aleady to the MS ForeFront configuration to allow all traffic for the backup network, tcpip ports 1500-1599 and the whole backup network as well without any success. We have also de-installed the MS ForeFront software again to see is this is really causing the problem. Without MS ForeFront, no problem. Is there anybody out there, using this or a similar environemt who had experienced the same problems or better is abel to provide a solution or further debigging hints? Thanks in advance and have nice weekend, Rainer RHo-Consulting Rainer Holzinger Bachstr. 10 D-93105 Tegernheim phone: +49 9403 969174 mobile: +49 162 2807 888 email: mailto:rainerholzin...@gmx.de rainerholzin...@gmx.de CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender IMMEDIATELY; you should not copy the e-mail or use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any other person. VIRUSES: Although there have been taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and attachments are free from any viruses, the recipient should at its sole discretion take the necessary measures to ensure that the received messages are actually virus free.
Re: Windows 2008 System State Backup: Incremental
TSM client 6.2.2.0 works well for system state incremental backup. Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 2/3/2011 1:31 PM Hi Everyone, Does anyone know what version of the TSM Windows Client is needed in order to only do an incremental system state backup? And does anything special need to be done once I have the client upgraded to the needed release? This is needed more for my Windows 2008 servers which have large system state backups. Thanks in advance! This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates.
Re: Windows 2008 System State Backup: Incremental
No more and or less customization than a v5 client. If you backup system state, it automatically does an incremental. David Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 2/3/2011 2:10 PM Hi David, Do you have to customize the client or tell it to only do an incremental backup of the system state with the 6.2.2.0 client? Or does it just do it automatically? Thanks again! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Windows 2008 System State Backup: Incremental TSM client 6.2.2.0 works well for system state incremental backup. Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 2/3/2011 1:31 PM Hi Everyone, Does anyone know what version of the TSM Windows Client is needed in order to only do an incremental system state backup? And does anything special need to be done once I have the client upgraded to the needed release? This is needed more for my Windows 2008 servers which have large system state backups. Thanks in advance! This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates.
TSM v6.2.3
Is there an ETA for TSM Server v6.2.3? David
Re: TSM 6.2.2 CPU requirements
V6 expire processing pretty much pegs my cpu on a AIX 5.3 p5 machine. David Paul Zarnowski p...@cornell.edu 1/12/2011 11:01 AM We are just migrating our instances to TSM 6.2.2.0 (from 5.5.4.2). Our limited experience shows us that DB2/TSM6 is hammering our CPU (mostly in db2sysc processes). As Roger suggests, we did not ignore DB i/o bandwidth either, but I am surprised at how much CPU it seems to want. We have 7 instances (5 active) on 8 (p6) cores, and our CPU is currently pegged most of the day. I don't know yet whether this is expected/normal, or whether we still have some reconfiguring/patching to do to address this. ..Paul At 01:35 AM 1/12/2011, you wrote: I'd be more worried about database I/O bandwidth. Expiration and deduplication are going to hammer the database. All the usual rules apply, such as avoiding RAID5, using your fastest disks, using striping, not overloading any one bus, controller, or drive. If you have any of these bottlenecks then adding more cores cannot improve performance. Poor database disk I/O can kill a TSM system, regardless of its CPU resources. If you've got the budget for it, think about using solid state storage for the TSM database in order to support multiple expiration and deduplication processes. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like. - pixadel On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Schneider, Jim wrote: Good morning, TSM fans! I'm building an AIX 6 TL4 server to run TSM Server 6.2.2.0. The Performance Tuning manual tells me I need one core per expiration or deduplication process. How many processors are you folks using, and does additional processing power have a significant benefit? Thanks in advance, Jim Schneider -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em: p...@cornell.edu
Percent log utilization
On TSM v6, how are folks tracking %log utilization? David
TSM v6 active log filespace
Under what conditions will tsm try to increase the size of the active log? I thought it was preformated and then did not change in size? The reason I ask is that I got a file system full error in errpt (AIX 5.3) for my tsm active log file system for a TSM that has been in use for a couple of weeks now. --- LABEL: J2_FS_FULL IDENTIFIER: F7FA22C9 Date/Time: Sun Jan 9 22:40:36 EST 2011 Sequence Number: 299563 Machine Id: 000A3CD8D600 Node Id: tsm Class: O Type:INFO Resource Name: SYSJ2 Description UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SPACE IN FILE SYSTEM Probable Causes FILE SYSTEM FULL Recommended Actions INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE ASSOCIATED FILE SYSTEM REMOVE UNNECESSARY DATA FROM FILE SYSTEM USE FUSER UTILITY TO LOCATE UNLINKED FILES STILL REFERENCED Detail Data JFS2 MAJOR/MINOR DEVICE NUMBER 003C 0002 FILE SYSTEM DEVICE AND MOUNT POINT /dev/fslv19, /tsm/tsmlog
BMR restore of Win 2008
With the loss of ASR for Win 2008, what are folks doing for BMR of these machines? Is the loss of ASR a TSM thing or a Microsoft thing? What is Microsoft recommending for BMR of 2008? David
Re: TSM v6 active log filespace
That makes senses, except that archivelog is less than 10% full. If both active log and archivelog were full, don't you get a crashed system? TSM did not reflect an error. Too many mysteries. Not enough time. Prather, Wanda wprat...@icfi.com 1/10/2011 10:55 AM Usually it's because the archivelog filesystem is full. In V6, the active log file size in dsmserv.opt is just a starting point, not a limit. It's not preformatted in V6. If the archivelog space fills, V6 just keeps writing to the active log space. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 8:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM v6 active log filespace Under what conditions will tsm try to increase the size of the active log? I thought it was preformated and then did not change in size? The reason I ask is that I got a file system full error in errpt (AIX 5.3) for my tsm active log file system for a TSM that has been in use for a couple of weeks now. --- LABEL: J2_FS_FULL IDENTIFIER: F7FA22C9 Date/Time: Sun Jan 9 22:40:36 EST 2011 Sequence Number: 299563 Machine Id: 000A3CD8D600 Node Id: tsm Class: O Type:INFO Resource Name: SYSJ2 Description UNABLE TO ALLOCATE SPACE IN FILE SYSTEM Probable Causes FILE SYSTEM FULL Recommended Actions INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE ASSOCIATED FILE SYSTEM REMOVE UNNECESSARY DATA FROM FILE SYSTEM USE FUSER UTILITY TO LOCATE UNLINKED FILES STILL REFERENCED Detail Data JFS2 MAJOR/MINOR DEVICE NUMBER 003C 0002 FILE SYSTEM DEVICE AND MOUNT POINT /dev/fslv19, /tsm/tsmlog
Re: TSM v6.2.2.0 database errors
IBM says that my problems are the result of exceeding 1024 db connections while running on AIX. The workaround, which they provided, is to use TCPIP for the database connections. David Amos ADSM amos.a...@gmail.com 12/30/2010 2:39 PM On 30/12/2010 06:36, David E Ehresman wrote: 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANR0101E admevent.c(1067): Error 16 opening table Client.Eventrules. (SESSION: 112837) Hi i got this error 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANR0101E admevent.c(1067): Error 16 opening table Client.Eventrules. (SESSION: 112837) When i used dedupe , i stop using clients dedupe because im using DD and the errors gone, Amos
TSM v6.2.2.0 database errors
While I'm waiting on a call from support, has anyone seen database errors like these. I just upgraded to TSM v6.2.2.0 on AIX 5.3-12.02 and started getting these errors 15 minutes after the start of my backup window: 12/29/2010 22:14:15 ANR0171I dbiconn.c(1514): Error detected on 0:1026, database in evaluation mode. (SESSION: 112835) 12/29/2010 22:14:16 ANR2561I Schedule prompter contacting CLUSPSFT (session 112836) to start a scheduled operation. (SESSION: 55) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANR0403I Session 112833 ended for node CLUSINST (). (SESSION: 55) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD_0645605689 tbOpenX(tbtbl.c:4587) Thread103777: Failure participating on transaction. (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 issued message from: (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x0001d694 StdPutText (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x0001e13c OutDiagToCons (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x0001947c outDiagfExt more... (ENTER to continue, 'C' to cancel) (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x000100076eec tbOpenX (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x000100414c7c admElBuildClientVectors (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x0001003edb7c smExecuteSession (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x00010009ad48 psSessionThread (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x00010001b688 StartThread (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANR0101E admevent.c(1067): Error 16 opening table Client.Eventrules. (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANR0403I Session 112828 ended for node BRANPROD (). (SESSION: 55) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD_1910305017 smExecuteSession(smexec.c:2432) Thread103777: Session 112837 with client CLUSINST (NetWare) rejected - error creating the central logging vector. (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 issued message from: (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x0001d694 StdPutText (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x0001e13c OutDiagToCons (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x0001947c outDiagfExt (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x0001003edbac more... (ENTER to continue, 'C' to cancel) smExecuteSession (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x00010009ad48 psSessionThread (SESSION: 112837) 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANRD Thread103777 0x00010001b688 StartThread (SESSION: 112837)
dsmqsan
IC70085: SANDISCOVERY MAY TRIGGER MANY DSMQSAN PROCESSES was projected to be fixed in TSM server versions 5.5.5 and 6.2.2. Does anyone know if the fix actually made it in those versions? David
Email Archives
Is anyone using the email archive solution from Messaging Architects? If so, would you be willing to talk to me about how you back up the archives? David Ehresman University of Louisville
Warning: TSM 6.2.2 server with 5.5.2 Admin client
Last Tuesday, I upgraded a test AIX TSM server from TSM 6.2.1.0 to TSM 6.2.2.0. After the upgrade ran to completion, I immediately begin receiving ANS0101E Unable to open English message repository 'dsmclientV3.cat'. from dsmadmc. I recognized this as the missing dsmclientV3.cat problem that has been discussed before on the list so I went looking. On a functioning system, I found it at /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/lang/en_US but on the test system I discovered I no longer had a /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/lang/en_US directory but instead had a /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/lang/EN_US directory that did NOT have dsmclientV3.cat in it. So I created /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/lang/en_US on my test system, copied the contents from my working system, and created the soft link in the /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin directory to point to the lang directory, ln -s /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/lang/en_US en_US. At this point, dsmadmc was functional again. So if you're upgrading from TSM v6.2.1 to 6.2.2 on an AIX box with the TSM v5 admin client, be prepared. David
Re: TSM for DB
I'm interested in TSM for DB/Oracle David Del Hoobler hoob...@us.ibm.com 11/29/2010 8:05 AM Hi David, I am not sure which one you are asking about in particular, but the latest Data Protection for SQL is 5.5.4. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 11/22/2010 11:52:13 AM: From: David E Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 11/22/2010 11:54 AM Subject: TSM for DB Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Is there a TSM for DB v6 client? The latest I can find is TSM for DB v5.5 David
TSM v6.2.1.0 - v6.2.2.0 upgrade on AIX
Should I/can I just apply the new filesets with smit or do I need to run install.bin? David
TSM for DB
Is there a TSM for DB v6 client? The latest I can find is TSM for DB v5.5 David
TSM v5 SQL help
The following script worked at TSM v5.5.3.0: Q_OFFLINE 1 select cast(drives.library_name as char(6)) as LIB, - 5 cast(drives.drive_name as char(10)) as DRIVE, - 10 cast(source_name as char(15)) as PATH, - 15 cast(drives.online as char(5)) as DRIVE ONLINE?, - 20 cast(paths.online as char(5)) as PATH ONLINE? - 25 from drives,paths where - 30 drives.library_name=paths.library_name and - 35 drives.drive_name=paths.destination_name - 40 and (paths.online='NO' or drives.online='NO') At TSM v5.5.5.0 it produces the following error: tsm: LIBMGRrun q_offline ANR2914E SQL identifier token 'DRIVES.LIBRARY_NAME' is too long; name or component exceeds 18 characters. | V.. select cast(drives.library_name as char(6)) as LIB, cast(driv ANR1463E RUN: Command script Q_OFFLINE completed in error. ANS8001I Return code 3. Any idea on how to fix this? David
Re: Cost of moving to collocation by filespace
In a collocated world, the number of concurrent operations you can run are limited by the number of tape drives you have. Evans, Bill bev...@fhcrc.org 11/12/2010 12:26 PM Does anyone have an real world example of moving from a single storage pool to collation by filespace? TSM 5.5, AIX 5.3 I'm backing up a 200TB server (solaris) with 1TB of new/changed files per day. There are about 30 volumes (filespaces) and I am thinking of changing to collation to improve restore times. Some things I can figure out, like it will require 30+ minimum scratch tapes per night (typically we run with 5). And each collation group will have its own 'filling' tape. Other than the extra library slots, are there any other things I haven't thought of that will increase my h/w costs or administration time? Thanks, Bill Evans Storage and Server Administration 206-667-4194
Ang: Re: Linux backup won't run
Because the problem firewall might be running on the client Linux box rather being a darkroom firewall. Daniel Sparrman daniel.sparr...@exist.se 11/9/2010 3:37 PM I'm trying to figure out why the TSM server would be located on the outside of the firewall while the client is on the inside? Usually, the server is located on the inside, and can therefore contact the client, while the client is located on the outside (or in a DMZ) and cant contact the server due to ports not being open from untrust/dmz trust.
Re: Linux backup won't run
TSM is trying to contact the server on port 4325 11/08/10 00:02:13 ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client svbser1 using type 1 (xx.xx.xx 4325. (SESSION: 2865) I've seen this when a firewall was active between TSM and the client. It that case you need to use a WEBPorts option in the client so there is a fixed port being used and then open that port in the firewall. Timothy Hughes timothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us 11/9/2010 2:27 PM Hi All, We have a linux client (5.5.2.7) that was currently backing up that has stopped for some reason, when I start the cad it looks like its ready to backup however it misses its backup each night. Has anyone else had similar issues with a linux backup [r...@svbser1]# tail dsmsched.log 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Next operation scheduled: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Action: Incremental 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Objects: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Options: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/10/2010 11/09/2010 11:13:18 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Scheduler has been stopped. nothing in the dsmerror.log that would show the cause [r...@svbser1]# tail dsmerror.log 11/05/2010 09:47:24 ANS1141W Unknown command - ls 11/05/2010 14:57:50 ANS1141W Unknown command - exit 11/05/2010 14:57:52 ANS1141W Unknown command - \quit 11/05/2010 14:57:53 ANS1141W Unknown command - exit Nothing in the dsmsched.log it just shows it ready for the next backup but it never backs up tail -100 dsmsched.log 11/04/2010 09:05:14 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/04/2010 09:05:14 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Next operation scheduled: 11/04/2010 09:05:14 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Action: Incremental 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Objects: 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Options: 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/05/2010 11/04/2010 09:05:14 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Scheduler has been stopped. 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Server date/time: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Last access: 11/05/2010 13:53:12 11/05/2010 13:54:12 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/05/2010 13:54:12 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Next operation scheduled: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Action: Incremental 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Objects: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Options: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/06/2010 11/05/2010 13:54:12 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Scheduler has been stopped. 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Server date/time: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Last access: 11/06/2010 20:51:26 11/06/2010 20:52:27 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/06/2010 20:52:27 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Next operation scheduled: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Action: Incremental 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Objects: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Options: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/07/2010 11/06/2010 20:52:27 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Scheduler has been stopped. 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Server date/time: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Last access: 11/07/2010 08:50:20 11/07/2010 08:51:21 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/07/2010 08:51:21 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Next operation scheduled: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Action: Incremental 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Objects: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Options: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/08/2010 11/07/2010 08:51:21 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Scheduler has been stopped. 1 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Server date/time: 11/09/2010 11:13:17 Last access: 11/09/2010 11:12:17 11/09/2010 11:13:18 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/09/2010 11:13:18 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Next operation scheduled: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Action: Incremental 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Objects: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Options: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/10/2010 11/09/2010 11:13:18 11/09/2010 11:13:18
Re: Linux backup won't run
Right. That means the client can contact the tsm server. It does not mean that the tsm server can contact the client on the appropriate port. Timothy Hughes timothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us 11/9/2010 3:09 PM David Thanks for your response, I was told though there is no firewall however, I will look at the Webports option to try. btw- I forget to mention we can do manual backups Tim On 11/9/2010 2:44 PM, David E Ehresman wrote: TSM is trying to contact the server on port 4325 11/08/10 00:02:13 ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client svbser1 using type 1 (xx.xx.xx 4325. (SESSION: 2865) I've seen this when a firewall was active between TSM and the client. It that case you need to use a WEBPorts option in the client so there is a fixed port being used and then open that port in the firewall. Timothy Hughestimothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us 11/9/2010 2:27 PM Hi All, We have a linux client (5.5.2.7) that was currently backing up that has stopped for some reason, when I start the cad it looks like its ready to backup however it misses its backup each night. Has anyone else had similar issues with a linux backup [r...@svbser1]# tail dsmsched.log 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Next operation scheduled: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Action: Incremental 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Objects: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Options: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/10/2010 11/09/2010 11:13:18 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Scheduler has been stopped. nothing in the dsmerror.log that would show the cause [r...@svbser1]# tail dsmerror.log 11/05/2010 09:47:24 ANS1141W Unknown command - ls 11/05/2010 14:57:50 ANS1141W Unknown command - exit 11/05/2010 14:57:52 ANS1141W Unknown command - \quit 11/05/2010 14:57:53 ANS1141W Unknown command - exit Nothing in the dsmsched.log it just shows it ready for the next backup but it never backs up tail -100 dsmsched.log 11/04/2010 09:05:14 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/04/2010 09:05:14 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Next operation scheduled: 11/04/2010 09:05:14 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Action: Incremental 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Objects: 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Options: 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/05/2010 11/04/2010 09:05:14 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Scheduler has been stopped. 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Server date/time: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Last access: 11/05/2010 13:53:12 11/05/2010 13:54:12 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/05/2010 13:54:12 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Next operation scheduled: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Action: Incremental 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Objects: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Options: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/06/2010 11/05/2010 13:54:12 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Scheduler has been stopped. 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Server date/time: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Last access: 11/06/2010 20:51:26 11/06/2010 20:52:27 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/06/2010 20:52:27 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Next operation scheduled: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Action: Incremental 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Objects: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Options: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/07/2010 11/06/2010 20:52:27 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Scheduler has been stopped. 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Server date/time: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Last access: 11/07/2010 08:50:20 11/07/2010 08:51:21 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/07/2010 08:51:21 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Next operation scheduled: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Action: Incremental 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Objects: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Options: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/08/2010 11/07/2010 08:51:21 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Scheduler has been stopped. 1 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Server date/time: 11/09/2010 11:13:17 Last access: 11/09/2010 11
Re: Linux backup won't run
We use port 1502. You just need to pick one that is not being used by other applications. Timothy Hughes timothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us 11/9/2010 3:39 PM David, ok I looked at the WEBports option is there a special way to figure out what ports to use? Thanks Tim On 11/9/2010 3:25 PM, David E Ehresman wrote: Right. That means the client can contact the tsm server. It does not mean that the tsm server can contact the client on the appropriate port. Timothy Hughestimothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us 11/9/2010 3:09 PM David Thanks for your response, I was told though there is no firewall however, I will look at the Webports option to try. btw- I forget to mention we can do manual backups Tim On 11/9/2010 2:44 PM, David E Ehresman wrote: TSM is trying to contact the server on port 4325 11/08/10 00:02:13 ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client svbser1 using type 1 (xx.xx.xx 4325. (SESSION: 2865) I've seen this when a firewall was active between TSM and the client. It that case you need to use a WEBPorts option in the client so there is a fixed port being used and then open that port in the firewall. Timothy Hughestimothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us 11/9/2010 2:27 PM Hi All, We have a linux client (5.5.2.7) that was currently backing up that has stopped for some reason, when I start the cad it looks like its ready to backup however it misses its backup each night. Has anyone else had similar issues with a linux backup [r...@svbser1]# tail dsmsched.log 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Next operation scheduled: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Action: Incremental 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Objects: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Options: 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/10/2010 11/09/2010 11:13:18 11/09/2010 11:13:18 Scheduler has been stopped. nothing in the dsmerror.log that would show the cause [r...@svbser1]# tail dsmerror.log 11/05/2010 09:47:24 ANS1141W Unknown command - ls 11/05/2010 14:57:50 ANS1141W Unknown command - exit 11/05/2010 14:57:52 ANS1141W Unknown command - \quit 11/05/2010 14:57:53 ANS1141W Unknown command - exit Nothing in the dsmsched.log it just shows it ready for the next backup but it never backs up tail -100 dsmsched.log 11/04/2010 09:05:14 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/04/2010 09:05:14 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Next operation scheduled: 11/04/2010 09:05:14 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Action: Incremental 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Objects: 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Options: 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/05/2010 11/04/2010 09:05:14 11/04/2010 09:05:14 Scheduler has been stopped. 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Server date/time: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Last access: 11/05/2010 13:53:12 11/05/2010 13:54:12 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/05/2010 13:54:12 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Next operation scheduled: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Action: Incremental 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Objects: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Options: 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/06/2010 11/05/2010 13:54:12 11/05/2010 13:54:12 Scheduler has been stopped. 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Server date/time: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Last access: 11/06/2010 20:51:26 11/06/2010 20:52:27 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/06/2010 20:52:27 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Next operation scheduled: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Action: Incremental 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Objects: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Options: 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Server Window Start: 00:00:01 on 11/07/2010 11/06/2010 20:52:27 11/06/2010 20:52:27 Scheduler has been stopped. 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Server Version 6, Release 1, Level 4.2 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Server date/time: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Last access: 11/07/2010 08:50:20 11/07/2010 08:51:21 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 11/07/2010 08:51:21 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Next operation scheduled: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Schedule Name: MIDNIGHT 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Action: Incremental 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Objects: 11/07/2010 08:51:21 Options: 11/07/2010 08
Novell on Linux?
Does TSM support Novell TSA (Target Service Agent) on Linux the way it does on Netware? Is anyone using TSM to backup Groupwise on Linux? David
Re: TSM + VTL and physical tape library
Capo tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com 10/15/2010 4:35 AM Hi all, I'm involved in a TSM + VTL project but, unfortunately, I'm quite new in TSM world: please apology me if I make trivial questions: My customer has currently got 4 TSM instances copying to a small disk pool and then to an IBM Tape library. They would like to introduce a VTL in the existing environment to improve overall performances and give TSM servers a little break. My questions: 1. TSM catalog is growing too much. Would VTL help them to reduce its size ? No. The TSM DB keeps tracks of where things are. A VTL would not reduce its size. When data are copied offline (I suppose via a copy pool), does the catalog still keeps track of them? Yes 2. Physical tape generation from Virtual media is really important in this project: customer would like to keep fresh backups on VTL and old ones on tape. With other BU applications this would be quite easy but, since TSM has got a peculiar way to manage files (versions), I am a confused: do you think that defining the tape library as a copy pool is a good idea? I would recommend defining the VTL as a PRIMARY storage pool replacing the disk storage pool and the physical tape as a COPY storage pool. Then backup directly to VTL and make a copy each day to the physical tape. What level of granularity can I reach with the storage policies and copy pools? Can I simulate the lifecycle policy of other backup applications ? Can I tell migrate XX backup to tape after 1 month and remove it from the VTL and stuff like that ? 3. Any real life experience to share ? The candidates for this project are Centricstor and DXi 7500 (or the new DXi 8500). Thanks for your help Max +-- |This was sent by max.c...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--
Re: TSM and XIV
How full is your XIV frame? It is my understanding that the XIV performance is significantly better with a full frame than a frame. Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl 9/29/2010 7:47 AM Hi all, I'm currently testing TSM 5.5.4 on AIX 5.3 with an IBM XIV box. When I use dd or other tools to copy data off the disk to tape (LTO4), we get quite a good performance, 100 MB/s or better. Even when backing up data on the XIV via shared memory directly to tape, we're quite happy, we can read the data at over 100 MB/s for one backup job, and for over 200 MB/s for two jobs. But, when TSM uses the XIV for DISK volumes, we're not in a happy place, backing up data from one XIV to TSM with diskpool on another XIV, we get about 55 MB/s per backup job, best case. Both XIV boxes are otherwise completely idle. When migrating data of the diskpool to tape, it's the same, no matter what we do, we don't even get close to the LTO4 native performance, about 70 MB/s is the best I've seen, and usually it's less. The TSM server is at that time only running the migration, nothing else. The stragest thing we notice is that TSM seems to completely pause every so often, no disk i/o, no tape i/o no cpu utilization, nothing for about one second, and the it goes again. When I let two migration processes run, this is less obvious, because one process continues while the other one pauses. We've opened a hardware call with IBM to find out if there are any settings on the hdisks or HBAs that we need to change, and even though we did get some hints, and some performance improvement out of that, we fell that TSM should be able to do a lot better. Does anyone else have experience with XIV as a diskpool? and if so, what sort of performance do you see? -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post, PLCS
tivoli.tivguid
Does anyone know where I can download fileset tivoli.tivguid 1.3.2.1 for AIX 5.3?
Re: tivoli.tivguid
I've tried Fix Central and only found references for AIX 6.1 and 7.1; I'm AIX 5.3. I've not been able to find where in the TSM download site it might be hidden. David Remco Post remco.p...@gmail.com 9/29/2010 10:43 AM It should be part of the TSM distribution. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Richard van Denzel rden...@sltn.nl wrote: Have you tried through Fix Central? Met vriendelijke groet, Richard van Denzel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: woensdag 29 september 2010 16:25 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] tivoli.tivguid Does anyone know where I can download fileset tivoli.tivguid 1.3.2.1 for AIX 5.3? -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post, PLCS
Upgrading from TSM 5.5 to 6.2
What Redbooks or other documentation do you recommend in preparing for a 5.5 to 6.2 upgrade?
Re: Upgrading paht from TSM 5.5 to 6.1
Wanda, Can you do a incremental import/export to a 6.2 server after pointing clients to an new empty DB and running for awhile? David Prather, Wanda wprat...@icfi.com 9/2/2010 11:01 AM It's a judgement call. Tivoli's estimate for doing the DB conversion/upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2 is to assume you'll get 5GB per hour. If your hardware is really fast, you might get 7-10 GB per hour. So doing the conversion is problematic, and what works well at small sites isn't necessarily practical at large sites. If you do a direct conversion from 5.5 to 6.2, you'll have to shut down your TSM server, and sit and wait for many hours while the conversion runs. And if your DB is very old, I have talked to one person who tried the conversion and it hit some bad record in the DB and quit. So it's bring the old TSM back up, wait until the next weekend, try again..repeat. Using a new TSM instance an doing export/import has the benefit of letting you do a few clients at a time, while you get used to 6.2. For customers whose data has a very short retention time, you can even just point the clients to the new 6.2 server and let the old data expire. And if you have had problems reading your tapes in the past, now is certainly the best time to clean them up by doing a refresh as you move to the new server. But in your case, reading/writing 2000 tapes may also be prohibitively time-consuming. You could try doing an export of a large client to tape, rename the client on your TSM server, then re-import it to get estimates of how long it would take you. (Even if you go with export/import, doing it server-to-server via TCP/IP is better than doing it via tape exports.) There is a way of doing a hybrid conversion - you dump your TSM data base, leave the old server running, do the conversion offline to a new 6.2 server no matter how long that takes, then use incremental import/export via server-to-server TCP/IP to get the 2 servers back in sync before cutting over to the new server. So you'll need to make your choice based on how long it will take you, how easy it is for you to get downtime for your TSM server, cost, hardware availability, etc. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alain Richard Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] RE : Upgrading paht from TSM 5.5 to 6.1 Our TSM 5.5 database is little more than 100GB (6 X 20GB at 83% full) -Message d'origine- De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] De la part de Prather, Wanda Envoyé : 2 septembre 2010 10:01 À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : Re: [ADSM-L] Upgrading paht from TSM 5.5 to 6.1 How big is your TSM 5.5 data base? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alain Richard Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Upgrading paht from TSM 5.5 to 6.1 Hi, To make the upgrade from TSM 5.5 to 6.1, our reseller support tell us that they prefer to do a fresh install of tsm v6.1 and import all tape written by tsm 5.5 so all the tape will be now written by TSM 6.1. They tell us it will be safer that way. We have more than 2000 tapes to import. That way to upgrade look weird to me. Can you comment on that? Should I ask another opinion before let them go that way and pay for that? al
Re: LAN-free backup in a logical partition
With VIOS v2, VIO servers can virtualize HBAs. So it is possible to run LAN-free via a virtualized HBA. I haven't done it yet, so can't speak to performance. David Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl 8/19/2010 5:32 PM VIO servers can't route tape
TSM Admin Center Upgrade
Has anyone tried to upgrade from TSM Admin Center 6.2.0 to 6.2.1? I don't see any upgrade instructions other than run the install wizard and that appears to try to do a full install which fails because it detects that there is already code in that directory. Any ideas? David
TSM Server 6.2.0 to 6.2.1 upgrade
After running ./install.bin to upgrade, am I suppose to run dsmupgdx as indicated in the message given at the end of the install process: To upgrade an existing server instance, log in as root user or administrator and start the upgrade wizard, dsmupgdx, located in the server installation directory. Or is the manual trying to tell me NOT to run dsmupgdx when it says: Important: After a fix pack is installed, it is not necessary to go through the configuration again.
Shutting down TSM 6.2
Does issuing a halt when logged on as an admin to TSM 6.2 server completely shutdown TSM, including the db2 database? Or are there additional commands that have to be issued to shutdown db2? David
From mynot...@stg.events.ihost.com
From mynot...@stg.events.ihost.com 1. Tivoli Storage Manager: News - TITLE: TSM Server 6.1.4 and 6.2.2 may use less TSM Server database log disk space. - URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21439105myns=swgtivmynp=OCSSGSG7mync=E - ABSTRACT: With TSM Server 6.1.4 and 6.2.2 only the database log files associated with the last TSM administrative BACKUP DB TYPE=FULL operation will be saved in the database active and archive log disk space directories. In many cases this change will result in a saving of disk storage space used for TSM server database log files. So where can I download TSM server 6.2.2? ftp://index.storsys.ibm.com/tivoli-storage-management/maintenance/server/v6r2/Linux/ only has 6.2.1.0. David
Re: Probably easy tsm client install question
Gary, Any plans on going to TSM 6? I'm told it has a client distribution feature. Has any one on TSM 6 used this feature? Lee, Gary D. g...@bsu.edu 6/16/2010 10:40 AM Working on silent installs for our windows tsm clients. Is there a way to only extract the install images from the downloaded exe files? My eventual goal is to create a series of .cmd files to install or upgrade a tsm client on a remote machine without needing a remote desktop session. Thanks folks for any help. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
Re: DocAve TSM for Microsoft SharePoint
Its been working well for us for a couple of years. Billaudeau, Pierre p.billaud...@saq.qc.ca 6/1/2010 2:49 PM Hi, Has anyone of you have TDP for SharePoint widely installed in your TSM environment ? I could only get feedback from 2008 experiences and it was not so positive. As our Microsoft Sharepoint is growing, we need a solution for TSM backup other then the TDP for SQL backup. So my question is do you consider TSM TDP DocAve for Microsoft SharePoint a good solution for SP backup ? Thanks, Pierre Billaudeau Analyste en stockage Livraison des Infrastructures Serveurs Société des Alcools du Québec 514-254-6000 x 6559 ___ Information confidentielle: Le présent message, ainsi que tout fichier qui y est joint, est envoyé à l'intention exclusive de son ou de ses destinataires; il est de nature confidentielle et peut constituer une information privilégiée. Nous avertissons toute personne autre que le destinataire prévu que tout examen, réacheminement, impression, copie, distribution ou autre utilisation de ce message et de tout fichier qui y est joint est strictement interdit. Si vous n'êtes pas le destinataire prévu, veuillez en aviser immédiatement l'expéditeur par retour de courriel et supprimer ce message et tout document joint de votre système. Merci.
Re: Mixed media in 3494
Back when we had a 3494 with two types of tapes, we controlled who wrote to what by making two separate devclasses. One type of tape was all explicitly defined volumes to one of the devclasses, the other type of tape were used as scratch tapes in the other devclass. David Sheppard, Sam sshepp...@sddpc.org 5/19/2010 5:41 PM We are running TSM 6.1.3.4 on AIX with a 3494 library and 8 TS1120 (E05) tape drives. I keep thinking there should be a way to do this, but I'm coming up dry. We are about to implement NDMP for several large filesystems. I was thinking it would be nice (and cheaper) to use the higher capacity JB tapes specifically for NDMP, since there will be a lot of large full backups. We chose to originally go with JA tapes on the theory that we would end up with less wasted space. My problem is I can't think of a way to segregate the larger tapes from the smaller ones to enable their use only for NDMP. The only thing I can think of so far is a new DEVCLASS that only specifies 3592-2,3592-2c and point the storage pool at that device class, but that still doesn't give me any way of getting the data to only the 3592JB tapes. Anyone have any ideas, or should I just bite the bullet and just let them mix. Thanks Sam Sheppard San Diego Data Processing Corp. (858)-581-9668
Re: TSM Scheduler problem with Windows 2008
A schedule that runs when the service is restarted but not otherwise sounds like a classic firewall issue. When the service is restarted on the client, the client starts communication with the server and the schedule can run. But when then next cycle comes around TSM initiates the communication and can not make it thru the firewall. This results in a cannot contact message in the TSM service actlog and no messages in the dsmwebcl/dsmsched logs. David tjackson5512 tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com 5/3/2010 12:14 PM Good Afternoon, I am having trouble configuring TSM Backup Client on Windows 2008 clients. The version ont he server is TSM 5.4.5.1 and the Windows Client is 5.5.2.12. After scheduling a test backup with the TSM server, the Client does not start at the sscheduled time. When I refresh the TSM services on the client the backup starts till completed. I have removed and re-installed the TSM Backup Client at least 3-4 times. I am not sure if it is a McAfee Virus scanner problem or a Windows 2008 firewall problem. Has anyone seen this problem with Win 2008 before? [Shocked] I have submitted a ticket to IBM software support and to date haven't gotten much help. Does TSM 6.1 have better luck with Windows 2008? [Question] Any help would be much appreciated. +-- |This was sent by tod.jack...@navy.mil via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +--
Re: Using tapeutil to examine cleaning tapes
Does this CLI only work in Windows or does in work in AIX also? David Khanh Ngo khanhvi...@gmail.com 4/8/2010 7:00 PM First, the TS3500 CLI team would like to thank you for your feedback. It is greatly appreciated as we have all intentions to continue to make the tool better. After taking your feedback to the team, we discussed options and concluded that a -v or --verbose (default is the quiet mode) would be the best solution. In other words, you will no longer get the human attention information lines. We have posted a new version on the website. Please try it at your convenience. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1159uid=ssg1S4000854 Thanks
Re: Using tapeutil to examine cleaning tapes
Does this TS3500 CLI interface work on AIX or just Windows? David Khanh Ngo khanhvi...@gmail.com 4/8/2010 7:00 PM First, the TS3500 CLI team would like to thank you for your feedback. It is greatly appreciated as we have all intentions to continue to make the tool better. After taking your feedback to the team, we discussed options and concluded that a -v or --verbose (default is the quiet mode) would be the best solution. In other words, you will no longer get the human attention information lines. We have posted a new version on the website. Please try it at your convenience. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1159uid=ssg1S4000854 Thanks
Re: Sql query help
Does this do what you want? tsm: ULTSMq script q_stgsum f=l Name Line Command Number -- -- Q_STGSUM 1 select stgpool_name, - 5 devclass, - 10maxscratch, - 15numscratchused, - 20cast(maxscratch-numscratchused as decimal(4,0)) as SCR_AVAIL - 25from stgpools - 30where stgpool_name like '%VTL' - 35order by devclass,stgpool_name Lee, Gary D. g...@bsu.edu 4/6/2010 3:10 PM Tsm server 5.5.4 running on suse 9 linux under zvm 5.3. Trying to create a query which will give me the count of volumes in a storage pool, and its maxscratch setting on a single line. Nice to watch for filling pools which need a larger maxscratch value. Query follows: --- select a.stgpool_name as Storage Pool Name, - a.devclass as Device Class Name, - count( b.volume_name) as # VOLUMES, - a.maxscratch as volumes available - from stgpools a, volumes b - where a.devclass 'DISK' - and a.devclass = b.devclass_name - group by a.stgpool_name, a.devclass - query ends. Thanks for any help. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
Re: ***SPAM*** [ADSM-L] Using tapeutil to examine cleaning tapes
Where did you find TS3500WebInterfaceCLI which is apparently needed by this interface? Marcel Anthonijsz marcel.anthoni...@gmail.com 3/19/2010 4:08 AM Curious as I was, I just tried it and it shows the clean remaining: *java -jar TS3500CLI.jar -a lib1 --viewCleaningCartridges* View all cleaning cartridges at 2010/03/19 09:05:13 Volume Serial, Logical Library, Element Address,Media Type, Location, Cleans Remaining, Most Recent Usage CLNU69L1, Cln Cartridge, 0, LTO Ultrium-1, Slot (F1 C1 R2), 42,Not Applicable 2010/3/19 Marcel Anthonijsz marcel.anthoni...@gmail.com Or use the (just released) TS3500 CLI: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1159uid=ssg1S4000854 Quote: Abstract The IBM TS3500 Command Line Interface (CLI) program can be used to access the TS3500 library from a CLI. This is in addition to the TS3500’s Web Specialist. One of the commands you can issue is: -viewCleaningCartridges : Views all cleaning cartridges. I haven't tried it yet and am not sure if it lists the usecount. Another command is: -removeExpiredCleaningCartridges 2010/3/19 Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl On 18 mrt 2010, at 17:05, John D. Schneider wrote: Greetings, This is a followup to Wanda's question about cleaning tapes on an IBM3584 library. I wondered if there was any way to do it using tapeutil. When I call tapeutil with: tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 inventory or tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 cartridgelocation either one will give me a report of all the slots in the library and what is in them. But wait a minute, it is not a report of ALL the slots. When I tried to use it to find out what slots had cleaning tapes, I found out that neither of these reports will show the cleaning tapes! They show empty slots, and ones with tapes in them, but they don't show slots that have cleaners. I suppose this is by design, but I can't imagine why. Does anyone know of a way to detect the cleaning tapes with tapeutil (or similar utility like ITDT), so we can determine how many cleanings are left? as said before, with ALMS, the cleaners are owned and managed by the library, they are completely invisible to the systems ,hey don't even take up slots in the systems' library partitions. The only way to find out is through the great web panels Best Regards, John D. Schneider The Computer Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, Remco Post -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522 -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522
Re: 3584 SMI-S agent
LM = Library Manager David Longo david.lo...@health-first.org 3/10/2010 5:18 PM What is an LM board in the 3584? David Longo Bill Boyer bjdbo...@verizon.net 3/10/2010 11:41 AM I've been trying to figure this out myself and ended up posting to the TPC forum on IBM Developerworks. Here's a reply I just got: Hi. You're exactly on the money - a later LM board is required than the one you've likely got in your library. It's still possible to use an external linux box with the SMI-S code on it though. ALternatively, it may be possible to get a replacement LM (but I'm not sure if that would cost you or not). It's not a very well understood thing, but I've been through that loop myself. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:21 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: 3584 SMI-S agent I just upgraded the firmware on my 3584 tape library from 7xxx to 8900. This firmware is suppose to supply support for an onboard SMI-S agent. But I still don't see the SMI-S option under the Access option on the 3584 web interface. Any idea what I have to do to get that option to show up? David # This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain private, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. #
3584 SMI-S agent
I just upgraded the firmware on my 3584 tape library from 7xxx to 8900. This firmware is suppose to supply support for an onboard SMI-S agent. But I still don't see the SMI-S option under the Access option on the 3584 web interface. Any idea what I have to do to get that option to show up? David
Re: Changing attributes
Two different ips, 128.135.19.3 and 128.135.19.5, both using the same tsm node name. Could result in an interesting restore scenario. David Fred Johanson f...@uchicago.edu 3/9/2010 3:02 PM I've got a client that generates this 5-6 times a night: 03/09/10 03:29:03 ANR1639I Attributes changed for node NIROLO: TCP Name from OLORIN to NIROLO, TCP Address from 128.135.19.3 to 128.135.19.5, GUID from fd.5f.d0.81.cd.7b.11.de.a8.c7.00- .25.64.90.25.15 to 9a.9c.1b.81.31.8b.11.dd.a6.6f.00.19.b- 9.46.ae.e1. (SESSION: 103251) It goes back and forth, causing great confusion to TSM. I've asked the owner what he's doing and he asks me the same. Anyone with an explanation?
Re: Long running backup pinning log
Try incrementbydate and/or journalling Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu 3/5/2010 4:26 PM I recently started having issues with my log going over 80% (5.5.3). Doing a show logpinned usually points to a long (18-hours) running backup session for one particular node. This is starting to happen more and more frequently. Once I kill the session, the log utilization drops to almost nothing since there has been a DB backup run earlier in the day. Any suggestions on how to handle this besides killing the session? The node is a standard 2K3 box using the 6.1.2.0 client. It is just a very slow/busy box. The long backups (times vary from 11-19 hours) often dump 120GB of data. Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
External tape labels for 3592
Does anyone print their own external tape labels for 3592 cartridges? I have a few damaged external labels I'm trying to figure out how to get new labels for. David
System State Backup Performance
IC63094: SYSTEM STATE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ENHANCEMENT This is a development APAR to improve the efficiency of the method the TSM client uses to query the TSM server database for information about system state files. Additional Keywords: systemstate Local fix Problem summary * USERS AFFECTED: All version 5.5 and 6.1 backup-archive * * clients running on all Windows operating * * systems except Windows XP. * * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: See ERROR DESCRIPTION * * RECOMMENDATION: Apply fixing level when available. This * * problem is currently projected to be fixed * * in levels 5.5.3 and 6.1.4. Note that this* * is subject to change at the discretion of* * IBM. * * Problem conclusionThe client has been changed so that during system state backup, instead of querying the TSM server for each of the system files one file per transaction, it will now query all of the system files in a single transaction. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC63094
Re: Am I Shoe Shining My LTO4's?
nmon is also available for Linux http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php Allen S. Rout a...@ufl.edu 1/29/2010 10:07 AM On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:44:35 -0600, Hart, Charles A charles_h...@uhc.com said: We push our 2nd copy over individual FCIP links with write acceleration enabled, we use to trunk 6gige links together but ran in to latency issues without write acceleration enabled and the technology did not allow for write acceleration and trunking so we end up with 3-4 LTO4 drives down 1gige link with write acceleration. That said when I run select against the summary table to get timings on Backup stgpools the more the more processes we kick off at one the slower the speed (makes sense only so much per gige). (TSM Env AIX p550 / IBM LTO4) LTO4's minimum matching drive speed is 30MBS, so once we push 4 processes down one link we are pushing less than 30MBS, thereby in theory running below the minimum rated drive speed we should be shining the drives pretty good. Does anyone know of a way to validate that indeed were shining? You can't really prove you're shoeshining from the TSM side, but you can give yourself a pretty good guess by plotting average bandwidth in the aggregate. If your sum at any moment is well under (30M/s * number of tapes used) then you pretty much know you're shining some. Another instantaneous check is nmon (if you're on AIX) which will let you see how much network you're using at a time. Even if you have things bonded, keep in mind that several of the algorithms which select links for given flows are deterministic by measures that give TSM flows problems. For example, however many Gb links you have, if the link selection at the router happens deterministically with inputs of src and dest IP, then all your traffic between TSM servers HOME-1 and REMOTE-2 will hit the same link. If you have enough TSM servers to be reasonably random, that will be less of a problem, but you'll still likely detect contention sometimes. If links are chosen by IP and destination port you can possibly change things up by adding TSM instances. And if your implementation is smart enough to chose link according to the both IPs and both ports, then you ought to actually be pretty well hashed. But we had to fiddle with that for our remote installation, and ended up with multiple source machines. - Allen S. Rout
Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools
What level are you setting for reclamation. I have found that in a catch-up situation, it is best to set the reclamation level high (e.g. 99 or 98) and get the easy (almost empty) tapes first, and then step the value down over time until you get caught up to a level you want to be at. This was with collocation on for both primary and copy pools so your experiences may be different. But TSM spends time at the beginning of reclamation figuring out which tapes and the best way to process them ( I believe it tries to minimize tape mounts) so starting high makes that part of the process go faster. David Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 1/27/2010 8:53 AM Hello everyone, For several years I had not been able to run reclamation on one of my tsm servers due to the lack of physical tape drives to accomplish the task. I am in the process of trying to get caught up, but it seems that I just never do. Most of my issue is with the copy storage pool volumes which are very under-utilized. It seems like reclamation, even if I start multiple reclamation threads, is taking quite a long time. Is there some other way for me to get the data onto new media without doing reclamation? Can I do a move data from 1 copy storage pool volume to the another volume within the same copy storage pool? I know that this would mean bringing the tapes back from the vault, but it is just not progressing as I would like with the reclamation processes. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I would like to get this back under control. Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Storage Administrator III (717)302-9966 joni.mo...@highmark.com This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates.
Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools
No. That reclaim process would process a maximum of tapes (if there are that many 98%+ empty) and then stop. You would have to repeat the command to do the next four. David Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 1/27/2010 2:55 PM Hi Andy, If I set the offsitereclaimlimit to 4 and then I set the reclaimthreshold to 98% will it continue to reclaim all tapes that are 98%+ empty in increments of 4 volumes until there are no tapes with 98%+ space available to reclaim? Just want to make sure I understand what these options are accomplishing. Thanks again! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools Also look at reclaim stg Copy_Pool th=50 OFFSITERECLAIMLimit=4 This will reclaim 4 volumes and TSM seems to pick the four at or above the 50% threshold. We have gotten behind a few times and we use this to speed the reclaim process. This also reduces the time TSM spends figuring out what tapes are needed to do the reclaim. Another option is to create a new copy pool and when the copy is complete delete the old pool. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moyer, Joni M Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation for offsite storage pools Hello everyone, For several years I had not been able to run reclamation on one of my tsm servers due to the lack of physical tape drives to accomplish the task. I am in the process of trying to get caught up, but it seems that I just never do. Most of my issue is with the copy storage pool volumes which are very under-utilized. It seems like reclamation, even if I start multiple reclamation threads, is taking quite a long time. Is there some other way for me to get the data onto new media without doing reclamation? Can I do a move data from 1 copy storage pool volume to the another volume within the same copy storage pool? I know that this would mean bringing the tapes back from the vault, but it is just not progressing as I would like with the reclamation processes. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I would like to get this back under control. Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Storage Administrator III (717)302-9966 joni.mo...@highmark.com This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates. This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools
The reclaim stg command gives you more control over the reclaim process than does the 'Update stg xxx reclaim= command. See dsmadmc help reclaim stg Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 1/27/2010 3:09 PM Hi, I am updating the copy pool so it's reclaim threshold is 98%. I'm not entering a command to trigger the reclamation process. Am I handling this incorrectly? Should I be entering a command to do this instead of changing the copy storage pool? Just let me know. Thanks again! Storage Pool Name: COPY_AIX Storage Pool Type: Copy Device Class Name: LTO2_OFFSITE Estimated Capacity: 3,484,928 G Space Trigger Util: Pct Util: 0.3 Pct Migr: Pct Logical: 97.4 High Mig Pct: Low Mig Pct: Migration Delay: Migration Continue: Yes Migration Processes: Reclamation Processes: 1 Next Storage Pool: Reclaim Storage Pool: Maximum Size Threshold: Access: Read/Write Description: Offsite AIX Tape Pool Overflow Location: Cache Migrated Files?: Collocate?: No Reclamation Threshold: 90 Offsite Reclamation Limit: 4 Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: 9,999 Number of Scratch Volumes Used: 93 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David E Ehresman Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools No. That reclaim process would process a maximum of tapes (if there are that many 98%+ empty) and then stop. You would have to repeat the command to do the next four. David Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.com 1/27/2010 2:55 PM Hi Andy, If I set the offsitereclaimlimit to 4 and then I set the reclaimthreshold to 98% will it continue to reclaim all tapes that are 98%+ empty in increments of 4 volumes until there are no tapes with 98%+ space available to reclaim? Just want to make sure I understand what these options are accomplishing. Thanks again! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 9:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools Also look at reclaim stg Copy_Pool th=50 OFFSITERECLAIMLimit=4 This will reclaim 4 volumes and TSM seems to pick the four at or above the 50% threshold. We have gotten behind a few times and we use this to speed the reclaim process. This also reduces the time TSM spends figuring out what tapes are needed to do the reclaim. Another option is to create a new copy pool and when the copy is complete delete the old pool. Andy Huebner -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moyer, Joni M Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation for offsite storage pools Hello everyone, For several years I had not been able to run reclamation on one of my tsm servers due to the lack of physical tape drives to accomplish the task. I am in the process of trying to get caught up, but it seems that I just never do. Most of my issue is with the copy storage pool volumes which are very under-utilized. It seems like reclamation, even if I start multiple reclamation threads, is taking quite a long time. Is there some other way for me to get the data onto new media without doing reclamation? Can I do a move data from 1 copy storage pool volume to the another volume within the same copy storage pool? I know that this would mean bringing the tapes back from the vault, but it is just not progressing as I would like with the reclamation processes. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated as I would like to get this back under control. Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Storage Administrator III (717)302-9966 joni.mo...@highmark.com This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates. This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying
Re: 6.1.3 Server pulled?
1. Tivoli Storage Manager: Flashes - TITLE: Patch 6.1.3.1 for Tivoli Storage Manager to be delivered on or before January 22, 2010 to replace fix-pack 6.1.3.0 - URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21417521myns=swgtivmynp=OCSSGSG7mync=E - ABSTRACT: The fix pack for Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1.3.0 introduced a crash as reported in APAR IC65409, which affects DISK storage pools. Because of this, the server patch 6.1.3.1 will be delivered to address this crash and the 6.1.3.0 fix pack is being removed from availability. Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU zfor...@vcu.edu 1/19/2010 9:33 AM I went on my usual wandering of the FTP site looking for server and client maintenance/patches only to find that server level 6.1.3 was pulled/removed on 01/12/2010 (whoever maintains the FTP site needs to update LATEST since it still points to it)? I just implemented 6.1.3 last week. What gives? What do I do now? Any idea why it was pulled? What kind of disaster am I looking forwards to? Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
archive convert
On unix client tsm 5.5, ballpark how long should I expect it to take to convert 2 filespaces, 2311 directories, and 22532 files after getting ANS5148W The server needs to do a one-time conversion of your archive data before you can continue. This operation may take a long time, and cannot be canceled once it has started. Are you willing to wait for the conversion to complete? on the gui after clicking the Retireve button? the server is tsm 5.5 running on aix 5.3.
Re: TSM 5.3.4 Policy problem
If you REALLY want to keep data in TSM for 60 days, you need Update copygroup DOM_SRV ACTIVE MC_90DAYS type=backup verexists=nolimit verdeleted=nolimit retextra=60 retonly=60 Otherwise, multiple backups run during a day can result in files expiring in less than 60 days. David William ZHANG william.zh...@st.com 12/16/2009 11:27 PM Hello, Thanks Grigori,Karel, I want to retain deleted data 60days in TSM. So should I input: Update copygroup DOM_SRV ACTIVE MC_90DAYS type=backup verexists=60 verdeleted=60 retextra=60 retonly=60 But got error, said, active policy cannot be modified, So could anyone can tell me how can I modified my policy set and copygroup so that I can get what I want? Many thanks! William -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bos, Karel Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 6:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.3.4 Policy problem I would take a look at the RETExtra/Only parm of the copy group, they manage the data by date instead of versions. Managing retention time using the versions parameters can give some unintended results (an extra backup of a changed file will reduce the period you can restore from for instance). Kind regards, Karel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: woensdag 16 december 2009 10:31 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM 5.3.4 Policy problem Yes, but it is better to use 60 instead of 59. Grigori G. Solonovitch Senior Technical Architect Information Technology Bank of Kuwait and Middle East http://www.bkme.com Phone: (+965) 2231-2274 Mobile: (+965) 99798073 E-Mail: g.solonovi...@bkme.com Please consider the environment before printing this Email -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of William ZHANG Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:28 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.3.4 Policy problem Hello All, I meet a problem, If I want to retain deleted data 60days in TSM, what commands should I input to modified policy in TSM? should the versions data exists and versions data deleted be modified from 2 to 59 , right? These are my configuration: --- tsm: SHITSM01q copygroup PolicyPolicyMgmt Copy Versions Versions Retain Retain DomainSet Name Class Group Data DataExtraOnly NameName NameExists Deleted Versions Version - - - - --- DOM_SRV ACTIVEMC_90DAYS STANDARD 2 1 90 90 DOM_SRV SET_SRV MC_90DAYS STANDARD90 90 90 90 STANDARD ACTIVESTANDARD STANDARD 2 1 30 60 STANDARD STANDARD STANDARD STANDARD 2 1 30 60 --- tsm: SHITSM01q domain f=d Policy Domain Name: DOM_SRV Activated Policy Set: SET_SRV Activation Date/Time: 05/10/2007 11:09:44 Days Since Activation: 951 Activated Default Mgmt Class: MC_90DAYS Number of Registered Nodes: 3 Description: Backup Retention (Grace Period): 60 Archive Retention (Grace Period): 1,095 Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN Last Update Date/Time: 07/30/2009 11:30:05 Managing profile: Changes Pending: Yes Policy Domain Name: STANDARD Activated Policy Set: STANDARD Activation Date/Time: 05/09/2007 12:41:05 Days Since Activation: 952 Activated Default Mgmt Class: STANDARD Number of Registered Nodes: 1 Description: Installed default policy domain. Backup Retention (Grace Period): 30 Archive Retention (Grace Period): 365 Last Update by (administrator): SERVER_CONSOLE Last Update Date/Time: 05/09/2007 12:41:05 Managing profile: Changes Pending: No --- tsm: SHITSM01q mgmtclass PolicyPolicyMgmt Default Description DomainSet Name Class Mgmt NameName Class ? - - - - DOM_SRV ACTIVEMC_90DAYS Yes DOM_SRV SET_SRV MC_90DAYS Yes STANDARD ACTIVESTANDARD Yes Installed default management class. STANDARD
Lib Manager question
I have a library manager that is sharing a 8 drives in a 3584 library to two tsm instances. All are TSM 5.5.3.0. If I update the path between a drive and one of the instances offline, will the lib manager then not use that drive when allocating drives to that instance? Or will it allocate the drive and then generate a failure because the instance can't access it? What I am trying to do, for troubleshooting purposes, is to make a drive available to one of the instances but not the other. David
Re: TSM 5.x DB and hardware replication
Wanda, In TSM v5, do you find hardware replication to work better than TSM mirroring for replicating the TSM DB and log to a DR site? David Wanda Prather wprat...@jasi.com 12/15/2009 12:40 PM In prior TSM server versions, replicating the TSM DB and log using hardware replication works fine as long as the DB and log are in a consistency group. Any issues with hardware replication of the TSM 6.1 DB and log? With appropriate changes to dsmserv.opt, will a DR TSM server be able to open the replicated DB and use it? (Just a little nervous about what all those DB2 services will think..) Any insight appreciated! W
Re: ANS0299E Scheduler cannot be started manually because the value of MANAGEDSERVICES option is SCHEDULE.
Your log shows that at 11:32, the CAD tried to start the scheduler and the scheduler failed to contact ther tsm server. Check the logs to find out why. What does dsmerror show for this time frame. Then it shows CAD was restarted at 11:45, but this time only in Webclient mode; in this mode, it will not try to start the scheduler. David Timothy Hughes timothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us 12/2/2009 11:51 AM Wanda Thanks! I checked and neither the dsmsched.log nor the dsmwebcl.log show the backup is scheduled to run. 12/02/2009 11:32:20 (dsmcad) Client Acceptor - Built Jul 5 2009 12:19:22 12/02/2009 11:32:20 (dsmcad) Version 6, Release 1, Level 0.2 12/02/2009 11:32:20 (dsmcad) ANS3000I TCP/IP communications available on port 3136. 12/02/2009 11:32:20 (dsmcad) Dsmcad is working in Webclient Schedule mode. 12/02/2009 11:32:20 (dsmcad) ANS3000I HTTP communications available on port 1581. 12/02/2009 11:32:20 (dsmcad) Command will be executed in 1 minute. 12/02/2009 11:32:20 (dsmcad) Time remaining until execution: Executing scheduled command now. 12/02/2009 11:33:20 (dsmcad) ANS1977E Dsmcad schedule invocation was unsuccessful. This command will be tried again in 10 minutes. in 10 minutes. 12/02/2009 11:33:20 (dsmcad) Time remaining until execution: 12/02/2009 11:41:15 (dsmcad) IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 12/02/2009 11:41:15 (dsmcad) Client Acceptor - Built Jul 5 2009 12:19:22 12/02/2009 11:41:15 (dsmcad) Version 6, Release 1, Level 0.2 12/02/2009 11:41:15 (dsmcad) ANS3000I TCP/IP communications available on port 3150. 12/02/2009 11:41:15 (dsmcad) Dsmcad is working in Webclient mode. 12/02/2009 11:41:15 (dsmcad) ANS3000I HTTP communications available on port 1581. 12/02/2009 11:41:50 (dsmcad) IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 12/02/2009 11:41:50 (dsmcad) Client Acceptor - Built Jul 5 2009 12:19:22 12/02/2009 11:41:50 (dsmcad) Version 6, Release 1, Level 0.2 12/02/2009 11:41:50 (dsmcad) ANS3000I TCP/IP communications available on port 3154. 12/02/2009 11:41:50 (dsmcad) Dsmcad is working in Webclient mode. 12/02/2009 11:41:50 (dsmcad) ANS3000I HTTP communications available on port 1581. I removed schedule portion from the MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT Then restarted Tivoli Services still no change Wanda Prather wrote: When you have MANAGEDSERVICES set to Schedule, the TSM Scheduler service stays shut down. THe dsmcad service stays on (set to Automatic). It will start and stop the Scheduler service itself at the time the backup should run. Look at the output of the dsmcad in dsmwebcli.log. If it looks OK, your backup will run when it is supposed to. Wanda On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Timothy Hughes timothy.hug...@oit.state.nj.us wrote: Hello All, For some reason, I am having trouble starting a Windows 2003 client Tivoli backup schedule. This issue started late yesterday. I have changed the dsm.opt file several times but to no avail. Any one with any suggestions on this 12/02/2009 09:33:26 ANS0299E Scheduler cannot be started manually because the value of MANAGEDSERVICES option is SCHEDULE. 12/02/2009 09:33:26 Scheduler has been stopped. 12/02/2009 09:33:41 ANS0299E Scheduler cannot be started manually because the value of MANAGEDSERVICES option is SCHEDULE. 12/02/2009 09:33:41 Scheduler has been stopped. 12/02/2009 10:49:07 ANS0299E Scheduler cannot be started manually because the value of MANAGEDSERVICES option is SCHEDULE. 12/02/2009 10:49:07 Scheduler has been stopped. Manages services option I have the Button checked for Both Note this opt file is tailored for VM/VCB backup DSM.opt file NODENAME TCPCLIENTADDRESS PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE TCPSERVERADDRESS VMCHOST VMCUSER VMLIST SUBFILEBACKUP YES SUBFILECACHEPATH d:\tsmsubfile SUBFILECAcHESIZE 100 commmethod tcpip MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT schedule DOMAINALL-LOCAL -H: VMBACKUPTYPE FILE D:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclientdsmcutil update cad /name:TSM Client Accep tor /cadschedname:TSM Client Schedueler TSM Windows NT Client Service Configuration Utility Command Line Interface - Version 6, Release 1, Level 0.2 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 2009, All Rights Reserved. Last Updated Jul 5 2009 TSM Api Version 6.1.0 Command: Update TSM Client Service Parameters Machine: SNI275(Local Machine) Opening Registry Keys ... Located service 'TSM Client Acceptor' . Updated registry value 'CadSchedName' . Windows 2003 Tivoli client V6.1 Thanks in Advance!
