Re: Spectrum Protect for VE - how to get started
It's been reported here that the restore time in the v8.1 CLIENT is much improved over v7 so I would recommend that one for the client. I am not sure the server version makes a difference for this situation. David Ehresman -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rhodes, Richard L. Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 10:51 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Spectrum Protect for VE - how to get started Hello, Up till now we have used BA clients in VM's. We would like to look into implementing VE. I would appreciate any wisdom on bringing it up first time. A specific question would be which version. Our current TSM servers are v7.1.5, but I'm wondering if bringing up a v8.1 server and VE would be best. Rick -- The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.
Re: TDP for VE clientschedules
We are backing up 359 VMs distributed across 10 VMWare host machines. Our datamovers are VMs. We have one datamover per VMWare host and each can do up to 6 parallel sessions. From the dsm.opt we have the following options set: resourceutil 8 vmmaxparallel 6 vmlimitperdatastore 0 vmlimitperhost 0 Our schedules, one per datamover, have the following options: Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=nodename that owns the backupdata -domain.vmfull=VMHOST=VMWare hostname; -VM=list of VMs we do not want to backup -MODE=IFIncremental This works well in our environment. David Ehresman University of Louisville -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Meuleman, Ruud Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 9:14 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TDP for VE clientschedules Hi all, We have a VMware vSphere environment with 246 virtual machines. We have 4 datamovers to do backups with TDP for VE. In the client schedule we define the command: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=nodename that owns the backupdata -domain.vmfull=VM=list with virtual machines, comma separated -MODE=IFIncremental This command is limited to 512 characters. So, it isn't possible to schedule all virtual machines at one timestamp, because the hostnames of the virtual machines don't fit in 4 times 512 characters. We could make more schedules for the 4 datamovers, but there would be a risk that client schedules are missed, if a client schedule starts while another one on the same datamover is still running. Does anyone have an easy idea for scheduling 246 virtual machines with TDP for VE? Kind Regards, Ruud Meuleman ** This transmission is confidential and must not be used or disclosed by anyone other than the intended recipient. Neither Tata Steel Europe Limited nor any of its subsidiaries can accept any responsibility for any use or misuse of the transmission by anyone. For address and company registration details of certain entities within the Tata Steel Europe group of companies, please visit http://www.tatasteeleurope.com/entities **
Re: TSM DB replication
Thanks for that information. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Angela Robertson Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 12:39 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM DB replication FYI - There is information re: this question https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.0/com.ibm.itsm.srv.doc/t_mng_drm.html?lang=en and https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli +Storage+Manager/page/Electronic+vaulting+using+deduplicated+remote+copy +storage+pools. If the information isn't answering the question, you can post here or comment in the 'comments' section for each topic. Angela Angela Robertson IBM Software Group Durham, NC 27703 aprob...@us.ibm.com ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 07/28/2014 09:50:50 AM: From: Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 07/28/2014 09:53 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM DB replication Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Where is the most current documentation for setting up DB2 replication for the TSM DB to keep an DR instance of TSM in-sync with a production TSM? David
TSM DB replication
Where is the most current documentation for setting up DB2 replication for the TSM DB to keep an DR instance of TSM in-sync with a production TSM? David
New management class
If I move a node to a new management class (e.g. include * 15day), is there a message in either the server actlog or the client dsmched.log that indicates that backup entries have been rebound to the new class? I looking for some indication that the change to the new management class was effective. David
Re: TSM and VTL Deduplication
Just so we're all clear here. You cannot TSM dedup to virtual tape, even though the virtual tape is actually disk. TSM dedup has to go to a TSM defined FILE storage pool, not a TSM defined tape storage pool. If you write to a virtual tape storage pool, the data will be written to those virtual tapes un-deduped by TSM. It the virtual tape does dedup, it will do so but TSM will have no part in that operation and will in fact not know that it has been done. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Haufer Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 4:31 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication Yes, one of the two. If TSM deduplication is enabled and the target is a virtual tape, i doubt if the VTL can deduplicate anything from the write data. On Thu, 6/12/14, Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu wrote: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 12:51 PM Unless you have a specific requirement, I would suggest you choose either TSM dedup to disk or go straight to virtual tape. There is not usually a need to do both. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Haufer Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 2:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication Thanks for all the answers. So SSDs (Looking at SSD caching) for the database storage and 10GB per TB of total backup data on the safer side. On Thu, 6/12/14, Erwann Simon erwann.si...@free.fr wrote: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 8:47 AM Hi, I'd rather say 6 to 10 times, or 10 GB of DB for each 1 TB of data (native, not deduped) stored. -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON - Mail original - De: Norman Gee norman@lc.ca.gov À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Jeudi 12 Juin 2014 16:55:29 Objet: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication Be prepare for your database size to double or triple if you are using TSM deduplication. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 7:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and VTL Deduplication And if you are on the licensing-by-TB model, when it gets un-deduped (reduped, rehydrated, whatever), your costs go up! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Haufer Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication Understood. Thanks ! On Thu, 6/12/14, Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu wrote: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 5:33 AM If TSM moves data from a (disk) dedup pool to tape, TSM has to un-dedup the data as it reads it
Re: TSM and VTL Deduplication
If TSM moves data from a (disk) dedup pool to tape, TSM has to un-dedup the data as it reads it and sends it to tape. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Haufer Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 8:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication Greetings, We are trying to evaluate the possibility of introducing deduplication into our backups. Our initial deployment will be based on quadstor vtl http://www.quadstor.com/virtual-tape-library.html but at the same time we are trying to understand the TSM deduplication feature. Could anyone tell me what the following means from the TSM deduplication FAQ https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Deduplication%20FAQ -- (Q4) When should I consider using TSM deduplication? Consider using TSM deduplication when the following conditions apply: You plan to use a disk-only backup solution (your primary backup storage pool will remain on disk). -- I understand why the backup pool should be a disk pool, but the disk-only backup solution confuses me. Does tape migration cause any effects ? TSM Server version v6.3.3 --
Re: TSM and VTL Deduplication
Unless you have a specific requirement, I would suggest you choose either TSM dedup to disk or go straight to virtual tape. There is not usually a need to do both. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Haufer Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 2:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication Thanks for all the answers. So SSDs (Looking at SSD caching) for the database storage and 10GB per TB of total backup data on the safer side. On Thu, 6/12/14, Erwann Simon erwann.si...@free.fr wrote: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 8:47 AM Hi, I'd rather say 6 to 10 times, or 10 GB of DB for each 1 TB of data (native, not deduped) stored. -- Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي Erwann SIMON - Mail original - De: Norman Gee norman@lc.ca.gov À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Jeudi 12 Juin 2014 16:55:29 Objet: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication Be prepare for your database size to double or triple if you are using TSM deduplication. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 7:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM and VTL Deduplication And if you are on the licensing-by-TB model, when it gets un-deduped (reduped, rehydrated, whatever), your costs go up! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Haufer Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication Understood. Thanks ! On Thu, 6/12/14, Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu wrote: Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM and VTL Deduplication To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: Thursday, June 12, 2014, 5:33 AM If TSM moves data from a (disk) dedup pool to tape, TSM has to un-dedup the data as it reads it
Re: possible RFE - multiple TSM VE plugins to one datacenter
We occasionally see -50 timeouts but certainly not on any regular basis. We've had one incident in the past month. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ball, Mike Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] possible RFE - multiple TSM VE plugins to one datacenter Do you ever see TCP/IP disconnects while running multiple DM's? We run a DM for each cluster that can have 2-10 hosts and sometimes I am seeing -50 results with TCP/IP disconnects. Each DM is set to run 2 parallel processes. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ehresman,David E. Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 11:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] possible RFE - multiple TSM VE plugins to one datacenter You can setup multiple datamovers to do the backup work while using only a single VE plugin. We run one datamover per physical host, each datamover using 6 parallel threads. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tuncel Mutlu (BT Isletim ve Teknik Destek Bölümü) Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 11:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] possible RFE - multiple TSM VE plugins to one datacenter Hi, We were discovering the possibilities of running more the one TSM VE plugin to the same datacenter (for the obvious performance reasons) and were told by IBM support it can't be done. They advised splitting the VM guests under several datacenter and run a plugin for each, but our VMWARE admins oppose it. They prefer consolidated datacenters. But that creates problems for me when I try to backup a huge datacenter with a single TSM VE host. I am eager to hear your thoughts, what do you think ? Is there a possible RFE in here ? Regards, Tuncel Değerli görüş ve önerilerinizi internet sayfamızdaki Bize Ulaşın bölümünden iletebilirsiniz. Bu e-posta ve muhtemel eklerinde verilen bilgiler kişiye özel ve gizli olup, yalnızca mesajda belirlenen alıcı ile ilgilidir. Size yanlışlıkla ulaşmışsa lütfen göndericiye bilgi veriniz, mesajı siliniz ve içeriğini başka bir kişiye açıklamayınız, herhangi bir ortama kopyalamayınız. Bu mesaj veya ekleri, aksi sözleşme ile veya mesaj içeriğinde açıkça belirtilmedikçe, herhangi bir işleme ilişkin olarak Bankamız adına herhangi bir teklif, kabul veya teyit amacı taşımamaktadır. Verilen bilgilerin doğru veya eksiksiz olmasına yönelik bir garanti verilmemekte olup, bilgiler önceden bildirilmeksizin değiştirilebilecektir. Bu mesajın içeriği Bankamızın resmi görüşlerini yansıtmayabileceğinden Akbank T.A.Ş. hiçbir hukuki sorumluluğu kabul etmez. Akbank T.A.Ş Sabancı Center 4.Levent, 34330 İstanbul - Ticaret Sicil Memurluğu: İstanbul - Sicil Numarası: 90418 - www.akbank.com You are kindly requested to share your valuable views and opinions to us via the Contact Us section on our website. The information provided in this e-mail and any attachments it may contain is proprietary and confidential, and is only related with the receiver of this message. If it is sent to you by mistake; please inform the sender, delete the message and do not explain its contents to anyone, and do not copy it in any form. Unless otherwise provided by contract, this message is not intended to act as a banking transaction such as an offer, purchase or sale of a financial transaction or confirmation of a remittance. No guarantee is given for the accuracy or integrity of any or all information provided herein and such information may be changed without prior notice. Akbank T.A.Ş. acknowledges no legal responsibility whatsoever as may be related with or arise out of the content of this message as it may not reflect the official policy of our Bank. Akbank T.A.Ş Sabancı Center 4.Levent, 34330 İstanbul - Trade Registry Office: İstanbul - Registration Number: 90418 - www.akbank.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This message is confidential, intended only for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is privileged, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that the dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you receive this message in error, or are not the named recipient(s), please notify the sender by reply e-mail, delete this e-mail from your computer, and destroy any copies in any form immediately. Receipt by anyone other than the named recipient(s) is not a waiver of any attorney-client, work product, or other applicable privilege. This message and all contents may be reviewed by authorized parties of the Catholic Health System other than those named in the message header.
Re: possible RFE - multiple TSM VE plugins to one datacenter
You can setup multiple datamovers to do the backup work while using only a single VE plugin. We run one datamover per physical host, each datamover using 6 parallel threads. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tuncel Mutlu (BT Isletim ve Teknik Destek Bölümü) Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 11:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] possible RFE - multiple TSM VE plugins to one datacenter Hi, We were discovering the possibilities of running more the one TSM VE plugin to the same datacenter (for the obvious performance reasons) and were told by IBM support it can't be done. They advised splitting the VM guests under several datacenter and run a plugin for each, but our VMWARE admins oppose it. They prefer consolidated datacenters. But that creates problems for me when I try to backup a huge datacenter with a single TSM VE host. I am eager to hear your thoughts, what do you think ? Is there a possible RFE in here ? Regards, Tuncel Değerli görüş ve önerilerinizi internet sayfamızdaki Bize Ulaşın bölümünden iletebilirsiniz. Bu e-posta ve muhtemel eklerinde verilen bilgiler kişiye özel ve gizli olup, yalnızca mesajda belirlenen alıcı ile ilgilidir. Size yanlışlıkla ulaşmışsa lütfen göndericiye bilgi veriniz, mesajı siliniz ve içeriğini başka bir kişiye açıklamayınız, herhangi bir ortama kopyalamayınız. Bu mesaj veya ekleri, aksi sözleşme ile veya mesaj içeriğinde açıkça belirtilmedikçe, herhangi bir işleme ilişkin olarak Bankamız adına herhangi bir teklif, kabul veya teyit amacı taşımamaktadır. Verilen bilgilerin doğru veya eksiksiz olmasına yönelik bir garanti verilmemekte olup, bilgiler önceden bildirilmeksizin değiştirilebilecektir. Bu mesajın içeriği Bankamızın resmi görüşlerini yansıtmayabileceğinden Akbank T.A.Ş. hiçbir hukuki sorumluluğu kabul etmez. Akbank T.A.Ş Sabancı Center 4.Levent, 34330 İstanbul - Ticaret Sicil Memurluğu: İstanbul - Sicil Numarası: 90418 - www.akbank.com You are kindly requested to share your valuable views and opinions to us via the Contact Us section on our website. The information provided in this e-mail and any attachments it may contain is proprietary and confidential, and is only related with the receiver of this message. If it is sent to you by mistake; please inform the sender, delete the message and do not explain its contents to anyone, and do not copy it in any form. Unless otherwise provided by contract, this message is not intended to act as a banking transaction such as an offer, purchase or sale of a financial transaction or confirmation of a remittance. No guarantee is given for the accuracy or integrity of any or all information provided herein and such information may be changed without prior notice. Akbank T.A.Ş. acknowledges no legal responsibility whatsoever as may be related with or arise out of the content of this message as it may not reflect the official policy of our Bank. Akbank T.A.Ş Sabancı Center 4.Levent, 34330 İstanbul - Trade Registry Office: İstanbul - Registration Number: 90418 - www.akbank.com
TSMVE Excludes
If I exclude some VMs (-VM=XXX) in the TSM schedule and also have a different exclude in the dsm.opt of the data mover, which one takes precedent, or are they merged? David
Re: Upgrading a Linux client
For Linux clients, I've always had to remove (rpm -e) and install (rpm ivh or rpm -Uvh) the client rpms. If upgrade now works without a remove first, I'd love to know at what client level that started. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Upgrading a Linux client what he said, or rpm -Uhv will maybe do (-U for upgrade, -i for install), h for nice hash marks as a progress bar and v for not Very quiet ;-) Op 14 mei 2014, om 16:19 heeft Erwann Simon erwann.si...@free.fr het volgende geschreven: Eric, You need to uninstall (rpm -e) and then reinstall (rpm -i). On 14 mai 2014 16:17:02 CEST, Loon, EJ van (SPLXM) - KLM eric-van.l...@klm.com wrote: Hi guys! I'm not really an Linux expert, but I'm trying to upgrade a 6.2 client to 7.1 on a Linux nodes. When I follow the commands from the manual to install the API client (rpm -i TIVsm-API64.x86_64.rpm) it fails with several of the following messages: file /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/sample/dapiutil.c from install of TIVsm-API64-7.1.0-0.x86_64 conflicts with file from package TIVsm-API64-6.2.4-0.i586 file /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/sample/dpsthread.h from install of TIVsm-API64-7.1.0-0.x86_64 conflicts with file from package TIVsm-API64-6.2.4-0.i586 file /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin64/sample/dsmapips.h from install of TIVsm-API64-7.1.0-0.x86_64 conflicts with file from package TIVsm-API64-6.2.4-0.i586 I tried the -U switch, but that doesn't help either. What am I doing wrong here? Isn't it possible to upgrade the client and should I uninstall 6.2.4 first? Thanks again for your help! Kind regards, Eric van Loon AF/KLM Storage Engineering For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 -- Erwann SIMON Envoyé de mon téléphone Android avec K-9 Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards, Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6 248 21 622
Re: VTL label unreadable, I'm stuck.
Use the RESTORE VOLUME command to move the data from your copy pool to a new volume. That will leave the old volume with status DESTORYED. At that point you should be able to do a DELETE VOLUME and then the relabel. If you don't have a copy pool, a DELETE VOLUME xxx DISCARDDATA will forceably delete it with loss of data and then the relabel should be possible. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, EJ van (SPLXM) - KLM Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] VTL label unreadable, I'm stuck. Hi TSM-ers! In one of my virtual libraries I found 4 tapes which were unavailable. I updated them to read-only and issued a move data for them. This failed due to the following error: 04/22/2014 14:39:13 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 020408 in drive TVTL_TLSP2_1_DR38 This looks like an unlabeled tape, but it's a private tape used in a primary storage pool! So I tried relabeling it with overwrite=yes: 04/22/2014 14:59:11 ANR8816E LABEL LIBVOLUME: Volume 020408 in library TVTL_TLSP2_1 cannot be labeled because it is currently defined in a storage pool or in the volume history file. Now what... I can't read the data on the tape since the label is corrupt and I can't relabel it because there is data on it! Thank you very much for your suggestions in advance! Kind regards, Eric van Loon AF/KLM Storage Engineering For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286
Re: TSM for VE going to tape copypool, recommendations?
Is your PRIMARY VMCTL storage pool on FILE type disk? Can you create a corresponding FILE storage pool at DR and do a RESTORE STGPOOL prior to starting the VME restores? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew McGeary Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE going to tape copypool, recommendations? We've been using TSM for VE for about a year now and while it's been great for onsite restores, our recent DR test was troubling. We've been using the IFINCR strategy and while I was expecting restores from tape to be slow, I wasn't expecting restores to drag into the 5-6 hour range for a small VM (40 GB.) I know that the admin guide recommends periodic-full for VM tape retention, but we use dedup disk onsite and we're already experiencing pressure on our daily backup intake volumes and disk usage, so I'd prefer not to have to change our backup strategy due to the increase caused by periodic-full in both daily traffic and storage. Is there any other way I could conceivably improve restore times from a tape copypool while still using IFINCR as my backup method? Here are a few things I considered: 1) A separate collocated copypool for the VECTL data. This would live on one tape easily and would reduce the number of mounts required for a restore. However, if that tape goes bad, I'm totally screwed in a DR situation because there's no way to restore VM backups without the control files. I'm assuming that if I use collocation by node, TSM will generate a new tape every day with all the CTL files and call back the old one. Am I right in that assumption? 2) Could I do an IFFULL backup every few weeks or even every month to limit tape mounts? 3) ??? If anyone with some practical experience in using TSM for VE with tape copypools could offer some guidance, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921
Re: TSM for VE going to tape copypool, recommendations?
I don't know how the VMCTL metadata is used. But I see multiple files in the vmctl storage pool for a given VM which leads me to believe that TSM will need to read more than one of those metadata entries for a given VM restore. If that is true, I am guessing it would be a significant benefit to restore them from tape to disk before beginning the VM restores. By the way, are we talking about physical tape? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew McGeary Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:54 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE going to tape copypool, recommendations? Yes, the VMCTL data is stored in its own stgpool with a FILE devc and we could request additional disk for the test to use for the RESTORE STG command. Would that be faster than restoring individual VM's? Should I still look at collocating the VMCTL data on a single tape? Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921 From: Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/22/2014 09:48 AM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE going to tape copypool, recommendations? Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Is your PRIMARY VMCTL storage pool on FILE type disk? Can you create a corresponding FILE storage pool at DR and do a RESTORE STGPOOL prior to starting the VME restores? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew McGeary Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE going to tape copypool, recommendations? We've been using TSM for VE for about a year now and while it's been great for onsite restores, our recent DR test was troubling. We've been using the IFINCR strategy and while I was expecting restores from tape to be slow, I wasn't expecting restores to drag into the 5-6 hour range for a small VM (40 GB.) I know that the admin guide recommends periodic-full for VM tape retention, but we use dedup disk onsite and we're already experiencing pressure on our daily backup intake volumes and disk usage, so I'd prefer not to have to change our backup strategy due to the increase caused by periodic-full in both daily traffic and storage. Is there any other way I could conceivably improve restore times from a tape copypool while still using IFINCR as my backup method? Here are a few things I considered: 1) A separate collocated copypool for the VECTL data. This would live on one tape easily and would reduce the number of mounts required for a restore. However, if that tape goes bad, I'm totally screwed in a DR situation because there's no way to restore VM backups without the control files. I'm assuming that if I use collocation by node, TSM will generate a new tape every day with all the CTL files and call back the old one. Am I right in that assumption? 2) Could I do an IFFULL backup every few weeks or even every month to limit tape mounts? 3) ??? If anyone with some practical experience in using TSM for VE with tape copypools could offer some guidance, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921
Re: Relabel/checkin Tapes marked as empty
Delete volume VT0164L3 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Leonard, Matthew Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 8:03 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Relabel/checkin Tapes marked as empty I have about 100 volumes that are defined in my storage pool as Empty (See Below). How would I change the status to scratch? I've tried running update libvol xdcvtl VT0164L3 status=scratch however I receive the following error: ANR8443E UPDATE LIBVOLUME: Volume VT0164L3 in library XDCVTL cannot be assigned a status of SCRATCH. ANS8001I Return code 12. tsm: SXDCTSM01q vol VT0164L3 f=d Volume Name: VT0164L3 Storage Pool Name: VTLPOOL Device Class Name: VTL Estimated Capacity: 0.0 M Scaled Capacity Applied: Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Empty Access: Read/Write Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 4 Write Pass Number: 0 Approx. Date Last Written: Approx. Date Last Read: Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No Last Update by (administrator): Last Update Date/Time: 04/16/2014 06:13:13 Begin Reclaim Period: End Reclaim Period: Drive Encryption Key Manager: None Regards, Matthew J. Leonard Network Infrastructure Administrator IT Network Operations AtlasAir, Inc. matthew.leon...@atlasair.com 914-701-8042 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of bjoern.nacht...@gwdg.de Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2014 2:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Question about Storage hierarchy Dear all, switching to an new employer allows me to read all^H^H^H some of IBM's documentation about TSM ;-) inside the server documentation there's a short description on Example: How the server determines where to store files in a hierarchy [1]. within this there's written: If the DISKPOOL storage pool has no maximum file size specified, the server checks for enough space in the pool to store the physical file. If there is not enough space for the physical file, the server uses the next storage pool in the storage hierarchy to store the file. = does this really mean, that when one client is flooding my staging pools the migration processes becme concurrent to new data that is written directly to the NEXTSTGPool, because the first pool is full? if the next pool has a limited number of mount points (e.g. tape drives) this will cause the next, eben bigger problem. if so, what's the best practise to empty the staging pool? - setting a max filesize does not solve the problem, especially if there are many files - perhaps DISABLE SESSIONS CLIENT -- this seems to be no really good answer :-( Thanks best regards, Bjørn [1] http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.srv.doc%2Ft_volume_seq_define.html [1] http://tinyurl.com/p23j5eo -- Bjørn Nachtweymailto:bjoern.nacht...@gwdg.de Arbeitsgruppe IT-Infrastruktur Tel. +49 551 201-2181 - G W D G Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen E-Mail: g...@gwdg.de Tel.: +49 (0)551 201-1510 URL:http://www.gwdg.de Fax:+49 (0)551 201-2150 Geschäftsführer:Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Kfm. Markus Hoppe Sitz der Gesellschaft: Göttingen Registergericht:Göttingen Handelsregister-Nr. B 598
Re: Assigning management class to VM backups
Stefan, Thanks for the tip on include.vm. That is apparently new in VE 7.1 and is a feature I have been needing for over a year. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan Folkerts Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2014 11:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Assigning management class to VM backups Have a look at include.vm vm name mc http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.client.doc%2Fr_opt_includevm.html On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Bill Boyer bjdbo...@comcast.net wrote: I have a bunch of VM's that need to be handled differently than most of the others being backed up. I created a mgmt. class for it and in the script file used to run the dsmc backup vm -optfile=, I specified the -VMMC=. But they did not get assigned to that class. I have different opt files for the VM backups specifying the DOMAIN.VMFULL= of the ones I want to process. I tried putting the VMMC in the opt file and still the don't get assigned correctly. Is there an INCLUDE or something I also need to specific? I have a lot of VM's that only need a once a week full backup, so I have them spread out across each day. Each day has its own opt file with the DOMAIN.VMFULL speicying the VM's for that day. I then have a .CMD file to run the DSMC BACKUP VM command with -OPTFILE= for that day of week. I just can't seem to get the VM's to be assigned to other than the default management class. I don't want to have to create a whole new policy domain and set of nodes for this. Any help is appreciated as always. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. (610) 927-4407 Enjoy life. It has an expiration date. - ??
TSM for VM Renames
If I rename a VM and its TSM for VM filespace, eg, \VMFULL-box to \VMFULL-boxtest, will the backups still be valid? Or is information stored in the vmctl storage pool in such a way that a rename results in data that is no longer valid? David
Re: Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)
Kevin, My gut reaction is that your disk drives can't feed the data fast enough. If it were me, I would open up a PMR to find out what the real bottleneck is. David Ehresman University of Louisville. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Kettner Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 11:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX) On the original question, I have moved DBs on AIX with LVM several times with good success. The only real concern is the performance impact. The benefit over mirroring is you can do it with no outage at all. I have 3 servers with similar sized DBs on AIX with NetApp SAS disk on the back end, backing up to IBM 3592 drives, and my DB backups take 4-6 hours. I'm on 6.3.4 now and I've tried using more streams but that has not made much difference. My smallest production DB is around 200 GB and it takes about an hour to backup. I wonder what's going wrong. Do you have any advice? Thanks! On 3/21/2014 15:42, Prather, Wanda wrote: Was just thinking the same - It's only the conversion from V5 to V6 that takes forever. Once you are V6/DB2, DB backup-restore is fast again. I have TSM 6.3.4 on Windows, DB is 930G used, DS3512 disk, and it will back up to LTO5 in 90 minutes if the server isn't doing a lot else at the time. Restore takes maybe 15 minutes longer. You've got other issues you should address, if your DB backup is taking many hours @ 300GB W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ehresman,David E. Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 9:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX) I've used migratepv to move oracle DBs around with no problems. I would not expect any issues with using LVM mirroring or migratepv to move the TSM DB. That is what I would do in your situation. But your comments about taking days to backup and restore your TSM DB worries me. How long does it take to backup your DB? I have a 600G allocated/415G used TSM DB. It backs up in under an hour and restore time is about the same. David Ehresman University of Louisville -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX) Now that TSM V5 is gone from our shop and we're all TSM V6.2, it's time to move some things around. Such as the TSM DB2 database. The manual says to do a full database backup and restore. That could take days of downtime with our 150-300GB databases, and a lot of angst, so that is not really acceptable. What I'm planning to do instead, is what I've always done on AIX. It's one of the reasons I like AIX for hosting something like TSM. That is, to basically walk the database over to the new location using AIX LVM mirroring. All this with TSM up and running, albeit with a performance impact. (It's Spring Break, so the performance impact is acceptable.) The end result will be that the database has exactly the same Unix filesystem names, path names, and file names as before, except that it will be on a nice new faster disk subsystem. Other than the obvious performance impact while AIX LVM is doing the mirroring, is there anything wrong with moving a TSM DB2 database by this method? Anybody done this and had problems? Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu ==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=
Re: Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX)
I've used migratepv to move oracle DBs around with no problems. I would not expect any issues with using LVM mirroring or migratepv to move the TSM DB. That is what I would do in your situation. But your comments about taking days to backup and restore your TSM DB worries me. How long does it take to backup your DB? I have a 600G allocated/415G used TSM DB. It backs up in under an hour and restore time is about the same. David Ehresman University of Louisville -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Moving the TSM DB2 database (AIX) Now that TSM V5 is gone from our shop and we're all TSM V6.2, it's time to move some things around. Such as the TSM DB2 database. The manual says to do a full database backup and restore. That could take days of downtime with our 150-300GB databases, and a lot of angst, so that is not really acceptable. What I'm planning to do instead, is what I've always done on AIX. It's one of the reasons I like AIX for hosting something like TSM. That is, to basically walk the database over to the new location using AIX LVM mirroring. All this with TSM up and running, albeit with a performance impact. (It's Spring Break, so the performance impact is acceptable.) The end result will be that the database has exactly the same Unix filesystem names, path names, and file names as before, except that it will be on a nice new faster disk subsystem. Other than the obvious performance impact while AIX LVM is doing the mirroring, is there anything wrong with moving a TSM DB2 database by this method? Anybody done this and had problems? Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu ==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=
Re: Exchange single mailbox restore
Del, At what version/release did the the Data Protection for Exchange Mailbox Restore Browser start giving you the option to keep the recovery database? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 1:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Exchange single mailbox restore Hi Wanda, In case you didn't know... the Data Protection for Exchange Mailbox Restore Browser gives you the option to leave the recovery database around for future restores, so you don't need to restore it each time. Data Protection for Exchange detects if there is an existing recovery database. If a recovery database is found, the browser automatically connects to that database and displays the database contents. As for the comment about reliability, some of those issues have revolved around some of the Exchange Server service packs and rollups that have introduced new security and access permission requirements. To our knowledge, those should be resolved. Thank you, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 03/10/2014 01:00:32 PM: From: Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.com To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 03/10/2014 01:02 PM Subject: Re: Exchange single mailbox restore Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu By all means use one of the later versions, they work better. And open a Tivoli ticket if it still doesn't work. But just in case this helps you in the short term : I have 2 customers that cannot reliably do mailbox restores for Exchange, one at TDP 6.4 with 2010, and one at TDP 7.1 with 2013. By reliably I mean sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Or it worked for a long time, then stopped working. We think it has to do with Windows updates and/or AD updates that are causing the problems. Neither customer has been willing to pursue the problem vigorously with support because: No matter what options you choose, when you start the mailbox restore, TSM is first going to restore the whole mailbox DB (and apply any necessary logs.) It puts the mailbox DB into a recovery DB, extracts the mailbox for you, then deletes the recovery DB. And while that is nice, what my customers do is just restore the mailbox DB to the recovery DB and then turn it over to the Exchange guy, who happily extracts the mailbox with Exchange tools. Result is the same, except you then have to delete the recovery DB on your own. So while I believe it can be fixed, they are happy with the workaround. The time involved is mostly in getting the DB restore done anyway, and the extra step for the Exchange guy is trivial. W
TSM/VE VMCTL Storage Pools
Do you reclaim your disk VMCTL storage pools? David
Re: Database Backup best practice
You should keep at least as many TSM DB backups as the largest REUSEDelay on your storagepools. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 9:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Database Backup best practice Good morning Running TSM 6.3.4 I have read the admin guide best practice section on backing up the database and I have also done some google searching but I cannot find a straight answer on this... How many backups of the database should I keep available? I always do a full backup, is there any reason to keep any of the older full backups if I have a recent good one? Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768
Re: running two distinct tsm client instances pointing to two different servers on windows box
Gary, Maybe a different approach would work. Use the same TSM node but use INCLUDE statements to point different filesystems to different management classes pointing to different disk/tape combinations. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 11:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] running two distinct tsm client instances pointing to two different servers on windows box I need to do some testing where a client machine must be two distinct tsm nodes on different servers; or on the same server but a different domain. I've been playing with this, but can't seem to get it working. I want machine client-a backing up to one disk / tape combination, while its alter ego client-b backs up to another disk / tape combination on the same tsm server. Most clients will be windows, with a few linux thrown in. Any ideas would be helpful.
Re: TSM/VME renames
An experiment last night leads me to believe (N=1) that a renamed VM will take a full backup even if you rename its filespace to match its new VM name. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:15 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM/VME renames From the manual (p.104): If you rename a VM, and you select this option [incremental forever], the schedule backs up the renamed VM. I do not know if it takes a full backup again. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ehresman,David E. Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 1:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM/VME renames My vmware admin is planning to rename a number of VMs to conform to a new naming standard. Can I avoid new FULLs of the renamed VM by renaming the filespace associated with that VM to match the new name? Or will info in the CTL file force a FULL backup anyway? David ** Information contained in this e-mail message and in any attachments thereto is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems, notify the sender immediately, and refrain from using or disclosing all or any part of its content to any other person.
TSM/VME renames
My vmware admin is planning to rename a number of VMs to conform to a new naming standard. Can I avoid new FULLs of the renamed VM by renaming the filespace associated with that VM to match the new name? Or will info in the CTL file force a FULL backup anyway? David
Re: anyone familiar with Microsoft OneNote Package software
2. User stated he generally shuts his PC down every night. Is the PC up during the backup window? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeanne Bruno Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:22 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] anyone familiar with Microsoft OneNote Package software Thanks Andy. 1. No entries in the .log files. SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS VSS already in our .opt file. 2. User stated he generally shuts his PC down every night. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 3:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] anyone familiar with Microsoft OneNote Package software Hi Jeannie, A couple of thoughts: 1. Are there any entries in the TSM dsmsched.log or dsmerror.log files indicating that the file was skipped, probably because it was in use? If yes, then consider using the SNAPSHOTPROVIDERFS option to use VSS (preferred) or LVSA (if XP) to leverage TSM's Open File Support (OFS) capability. 2. Going out on a limb here, but if there is no error present and TSM is not detecting it as changed, then this could occur if the application keeps the file open and never flushes changes to disk (until the application is closed, the system is rebooted, or some other event triggers the flush). In this case, you could bind the file to a management class that has a backup copy group MODE setting of ABSOLUTE, which means to back it up regardless of whether TSM considers it changed. - Andy Andrew Raibeck | Tivoli Storage Manager Level 3 Technical Lead | stor...@us.ibm.com IBM Tivoli Storage Manager links: Product support: http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/Overview/Software/Tivoli/Tivoli_Storage_Manager Online documentation: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli +Documentation+Central/page/Tivoli+Storage+Manager Product Wiki: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home/wiki/Tivoli +Storage+Manager/page/Home ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 2013-12-17 15:22:36: From: Jeanne Bruno jbr...@cenhud.com To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu, Date: 2013-12-17 15:25 Subject: anyone familiar with Microsoft OneNote Package software Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Hi all. I received a request last week from one of our users to restore a OneNote package file. And he wanted the last version copy of what we had. I brought up the TSM client (active and inactive files) and saw that there was only one copy of the file and it was dated 11/25/13. User stated he modifys this package file every day. I restored what I had in TSM, but it didn't contain what he needed. Microsoft OneNote (formerly called Microsoft Office OneNote) is a computer programhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users' notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network. OneNote saves information in a proprietaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_format file format with the extension .one. I was wondering if anyone is familiar with a .one file and if there is a setting in the OneNote software the user needs to change in order for the 'date last modified' of the .one will change, so TSM will back it up again?? I've been googleing OneNote but haven't found my answer yet. Thanks in advance. Jeannie Bruno Senior Systems Analyst jbr...@cenhud.commailto:jbr...@cenhud.com Central Hudson Gas Electric (845) 486-5780
VME Application Protection
I am trying to do an SQL Application Protection backup using TSM/VME 6.4.1.0. I am getting the following in dsmerror: 12/17/2013 13:40:25 ANS9411E VSS provider registration failed. Command 'cscript.exe register_app.vbs -register XR_VSS TsmVmwareDpVSS.dll XR_VSS' failed with Windows RC=112 12/17/2013 13:40:31 ANS9398E IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application protection failed to initialize on virtual machine 'LanSQL2k8'. See the error log for more details. 12/17/2013 13:40:32 ANS1228E Sending of object 'LanSQL2k8' failed. 12/17/2013 13:40:32 ANS9398E IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application protection failed to initialize on virtual machine 'LanSQL2k8'. See the error log for more details. Any idea? David
numscratchused
Does the numscratchused field in the stgpools table include tapes that are in the pending status or only those in filling and full status? David Ehresman
Re: DSMCAD deprecated?!?
In the Client-acceptor scheduler services versus the traditional scheduler Services section on page 225 of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Version 6.4 Installation and User's Guide It says Generally, using the client acceptor daemon to manage the scheduler is the preferred method. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schneider, Jim Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 11:07 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DSMCAD deprecated?!? Nick, The 6.2 Windows Backup/Archive Installation and User's Guide, page 209, says dsmcad is the preferred scheduling method. Also, Tivoli Storage Manager traditional scheduler services Requires higher use of system resources when idle and Restart the traditional scheduler periodically to free system resources previously used by system calls. The scheduler service has a memory leak. It is unlikely that DSMCAD is deprecated. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2013 9:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] DSMCAD deprecated?!? A colleague insists that TSM service once told him that DSMCAD would be deprecated and that we need to convert to using the TSM Scheduler routinely. The TSM 6.3 client manuals, however, refer to both techniques as valid choices. Has anyone ever been told by IBM that DSMCAD had been or will be deprecated, either in general or in very specific cases? Alternately, can anyone point to current IBM recommendations in favor of DSMCAD? Thanks, Nick ** Information contained in this e-mail message and in any attachments thereto is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems, notify the sender immediately, and refrain from using or disclosing all or any part of its content to any other person.
Re: TSM/VE backup options
I have the same problem with VMFOLDER as I have with VM. It is not ANDed with the VMHOST parameter. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcel Anthonijsz Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 9:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM/VE backup options David, My best practice is to use the VMFOLDER option and drop the VM's you want to backup in that VM folder. But I agree there should be better options to build your VM list.. 2013/11/22 Erwann Simon erwann.si...@free.fr Another idea would be to allow wildcards for the vmname parameter of the backup vm command (object field in a schedule). But it's not allowed, sadly. Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu a écrit : I am trying to set up a schedule that backs up all the VMs on a HOST whose vmname ends in -NR. So here is what I have: Action: Backup Subaction: VM Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=MITC-NR -domain.vmfull=VMHOST=v- mware10.it-servers.louisville.edu;VM=*-NR;-VM- =tsmpbw*,sp2010sql*,Print*,test-clus-sp* -MODE=IFIncremental What this appears to do is back up all the VMs on the specified VMHOST and all the VMs anywhere that end with -NR. Is there any way to tell VME to backup all the VMs that match a pattern AND are on a specified HOST? David -- Erwann SIMON Envoyé de mon téléphone Android avec K-9 Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
TSM/VE backup options
I am trying to set up a schedule that backs up all the VMs on a HOST whose vmname ends in -NR. So here is what I have: Action: Backup Subaction: VM Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=MITC-NR -domain.vmfull=VMHOST=v- mware10.it-servers.louisville.edu;VM=*-NR;-VM- =tsmpbw*,sp2010sql*,Print*,test-clus-sp* -MODE=IFIncremental What this appears to do is back up all the VMs on the specified VMHOST and all the VMs anywhere that end with -NR. Is there any way to tell VME to backup all the VMs that match a pattern AND are on a specified HOST? David
TSM VE 6.4
Is vSphere 5.5 supported by TSM VE 6.4? If so, can you point me to the relevant documentation? David
Re: sql query question
Gary, I think this will give you want you want. Change the node_name for your environment: select filespace_name,hl_name,ll_name from backups where node_name='DEEHRE01' and state='ACTIVE_VERSION' and type='DIR' and hl_name='\' David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 9:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] sql query question I want a list of all top level directories on a windows file system; specifically, c:. How can I get this from tsm? The problem is I need to restore several directories, back to a machine with a replaced hard disk. However, I am totally blind, and unable to use the gui; so thought I would create a macro to restore each top level directory, and then call it with a schedule. Thanks for any assistance. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
REPORTRETRIEVE
The REPORTRETRIEVE server option causes restores to be logged to the TSM activity log. How much, if any, of a performance penalty does use of this option cause during large restores? David
invalid encryption key
Anyone ever gotten a: ANS1469E Error processing '/soft/soft2/autotree/autosys/log/chmod_cache.060402'; invalid encryption key. message when doing a file system restore of a file system that has never had TSM encryption turned on? David
Re: 3584 ALMS and uncleaned drives
My recollection is that when the 3584 was set up autoclean the drives, it caused one or two entries in the errpt when it did a drive clean. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 11:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] 3584 ALMS and uncleaned drives After three years in a data center in which actual physical tapes were forbidden, I'm now doing penance in a smaller data center using a honest-to-god 3584 with ALMS. To my surprise, I'm seeing entries in an AIX 6.1 error report that some of my tape drives need cleaning, and I'm finding corresponding ANR8914I messages in my activity log. This makes me fear that the ALMS automated cleaning isn't happening. (The first alternate proposal is that I'm expecting too much.) If it matters, we're using 3592 drives, not LTO drives. Also, TSM 6.2 on AIX 6.1. Is this a sign that we need to update our 3584 microcode? Is there some interaction between the 3584 and AIX that prompts the 3584 to notify AIX instead of just quietly cleaning the drive? (I'm so happy that DataDomain's 3584 emulation didn't strive to match these nuances) Nick
Re: Expanding ProtecTIER Library
On AIX, I've had to reboot the server to get AIX to recognize the new stuff in the virtual library. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 3:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Expanding ProtecTIER Library Guys. I'm about to expand an existing virtual library. The lib manager is running 5.5.5.2 I'm assuming I'll just need to restart the lib manager and define the extra drives paths (also adding slots). Anyone done this and had to do any more to get it working i.e. delete and reconfig the whole library? Thanks Steven
Re: Move node to new domain
Tim, Have you done an audit vol XXX fix=yes on the volumes in question? That should fix discrepancies between TSM tables David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Nick Laflamme Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 11:07 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Move node to new domain The most alarming thing I see about Tim's question is the discrepancy between Q NODEDATA and Q CONTENT. Q NODEDATA says that there's data for that user in that volume; Q CONTENT contradicts that. He doesn't show the full output of the Q CONTENT command, but if what he says is true, I'd suggest he open a PMR. Note that none of that has anything to do with changing which policy domain a node is assigned to. :-) Nick 2013/8/20 Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com I am having difficulty sending to adsm-l so if you already got this please ignore! We recently moved a node from domain dm1 to domain dm2 but are still seeing nodedata references in dm1 that we cant remove. If we issue Q CONTENT D:\DM1_PRIM1\0001EAD4.BFS 0001EAD4.TXT theres not any references to node NODE1 in the resulting txt file. How can we resolve this ? Q NODEDATA NODE1 Node NameVolume NameStorage Pool Physical Name Space Occupied (MB) -- NODE1 D:\DM1_PRIM1\0001EAD4.BFS DM1_PRIM 0.02 NODE1D:\DM1_PRIM2\000165B3.BFS DM1_PRIM 0.11 NODE1D:\DM1_PRIM2\0001EA8D.BFS DM1_PRIM 128.83 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\00017F02.BFS DM2_PRIM 11,138.03 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\000180C5.BFS DM2_PRIM 148.23 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\000180C6.BFS DM2_PRIM 889.02 NODE1M:\DM2_PRIM1\000180C7.BFS DM2_PRIM 434.84 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\000184AD.BFS DM2_PRIM 1,070.09 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\000184B5.BFS DM2_PRIM 0.45 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\00018A84.BFS DM2_PRIM 294.61 NODE1M:\DM2_PRIM1\00019714.BFS DM2_PRIM 918.17 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\00019785.BFS DM2_PRIM 413.25 NODE1M:\DM2_PRIM1\00019C9D.BFS DM2_PRIM 531.94 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\0001A9D5.BFS DM2_PRIM 527.01 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\0001B9F8.BFS DM2_PRIM 510.82 NODE1M:\DM2_PRIM1\0001BB2B.BFS DM2_PRIM 1,555.39 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\0001BB2C.BFS DM2_PRIM 324.95 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\0001BF76.BFS DM2_PRIM 1,029.69 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\0001CA6A.BFS DM2_PRIM 816.66 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\0001D165.BFS DM2_PRIM 331.11 NODE1M:\DM2_PRIM1\0001DE62.BFS DM2_PRIM 1,141.98 NODE1 M:\DM2_PRIM1\0001E9B9.BFS DM2_PRIM 67.84 Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric
DR with automated library
Has anyone successfully done a DR (test) using an automated library (as opposed to defining a manual library)? If so, what are the needed changes to devconfig? David
Long pause for password prompt
One customer is reporting a fairly consistent 30 second or so wait after entering the dsmadmc command before receiving the password prompt. After the password is entered, response time is normal. Any ideas? David
TSMVE - Two stgpools
In my environment, I have storage pools that are replicated to our DR site and other storagepools that are not. I'm setting up a TSMVE environment for our vmware farm. We have about 300 VMs spread across 8 host servers. I currently have 8 data movers set up, one per host server, and things are backing up nicely. Now I've been given the task of breaking the TSMVE backups roughly in half, sending half of the to a storagepool that is replicated and the other half to a storagepool that is not. I am currently using the VMHOST parm to direct each of my data movers to backup all the VMs on one host. Any suggestions on how to best set the schedules for this so I have two data servers for each host, one that uses the replicated storagepool and the other that uses the non-replicated one? David Ehresman University of Louisville
Re: TSMVE - Two stgpools
Keith, That's what I've done so far. I'm trying to figure out how to get one DC node/data mover to process one group of VMs while the other processes the VMs left on a given hosts. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 3:35 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSMVE - Two stgpools Hi David, A new management class/copygroup whose destination points to the second pool is key, to state the obvious. One way to do this is to create a second data center node in a second policy domain with its default management class destination pointing to the second storage pool. Grant proxy from the new data center node to the second set of data movers. Voila. There may be a simpler way to do this with include statements on the existing data center/data mover nodes, but I'm not sure how. Keith
Re: : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes
From the messages, TSM is using 6 character tape labels. Is that your intent and has it always been so? Is your tape library and OS also using 6 character tape labels or might they be using 8 characters? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Adeel Mehmood Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 1:32 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Dears , We are receiving below errors and the Scratch tapes goes to ZERO 07/04/2013 22:58:44 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001736 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 32773) 07/04/2013 23:04:23 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000588 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 32799) 07/04/2013 23:04:35 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000482 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 32806) 07/04/2013 23:10:55 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001058 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34240) 07/04/2013 23:11:01 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002081 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34242) 07/04/2013 23:15:49 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000468 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34242) 07/04/2013 23:16:21 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000828 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34240) 07/04/2013 23:20:33 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002284 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34242) 07/04/2013 23:21:13 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002084 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34240) 07/04/2013 23:26:29 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001367 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34255) 07/04/2013 23:28:24 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 000386 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34215) 07/04/2013 23:36:08 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001804 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34215) 07/04/2013 23:37:04 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002323 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 34255) 07/04/2013 23:44:47 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 001814 in drive DRIVE15 (mt10.0.0.2). (SESSION: 34255) 07/04/2013 23:45:05 ANR8355E I/O error reading label for volume 002535 in drive DRIVE4 (mt7.0.0.1). (SESSION: 24769) Thanks best regards, Adeel Mehmood From: Adeel Mehmood Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 7:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: RE: [ADSM-L] : TSM Running out of Scratch Tapes Dear , Thanks for your response . please find the answers below . It is most useful if you state which version of TSM server you are running. -- TSM 6.2 The OS it runs on and the tape media (LTO3/4/5 etc.) would be helpful Windows 2008 Server , configured with SL3000 Library through ACSLS Software having 14 x HP LTO4 FC Tape Drives. What retention policies are in place for the domain copy groups? If NOLIMIT is in force, then data will never expire and will eventually use all of your tapes Retention Polices seems to be working fine as they are In place for more than two years half years and we started facing this problem couple of weeks back . When you say tapes are becoming 'unavailable', is this the status of the volume within TSM? (Do a 'q vol f=d' to check). If so, this is often because you are trying to use tapes that have been physically removed from the library. If TSM wants to use that tape, it will eventually place the tape in an 'UNAVAILABLE' state because it cannot mount the volume in the library as a result of being removed. - we are 100 % sure that the tapes are physically inside .The NEW/OLD tapes become UNAVAILABLE , whenever the TSM try to use them for backup or restore. but once we make them available , we could use them for some time . till they get unavailable again . In terms of running low on scratch, as the previous poster said, make sure expiration and reclaim is running. In particular, make sure reclaim is running and actually completing. The SUMMARY table will report on expiration and reclaim activity over a period of time (usually 28 days) - we double check the same. How many versions of database backups do you retain? -- 14 versions These are common causes of tape problems. -- we are using Brand New Tapes and they are also getting UNAVAILABLE , also we opened a case with Library Vendor and they said all is well . Best regards, Adeel -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor
Re: TSM Storage Agent Question
Installing TSM EE on the server should have installed all the license files you need on the server (I don't see one for Lan Free but we are using TTSM/Unified Recovery, i.e. storage based licensing). You of course have to do a register license for each license you are going to use. You will need to run the installer on each of the lan free clients to install the code there unless they have made that available as installp or rpm format filesets. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of white jeff Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 1:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Storage Agent Question Hi TSM Server v6.3 Running on AIX 7 I am looking to use Lanfree to backup a large server. I recall when I upgraded to v6.3 server, there were 4 options: Languages TSM Server Extended Edition Devices Storage Agent And from the list, I selected TSM EE and Devices. I assume this is where the license is involved. I am aware that i have to be licensed to use the feature, but is the license required on the TSM Server or each client that I install the Storage Agent on? Reading the docs, I assumed it was the TSM Server Thanks
TSMVE Application Protection
What would be the downside of using a include.vmtsmvss * to do application protection (sql) on whatever VMs happen to be running sql? David
Re: TSMVE vmcli syntax
Norman, Thanks. That was it exactly. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Gee, Norman Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 5:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSMVE vmcli syntax I get the same sort of errors, unless I startup the Microsoft Windows command window with run as administrator. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ehresman,David E. Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 11:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSMVE vmcli syntax Has anyone mastered vmcli syntax? I'm starting out with trying to do a query. Here's my query and the results: c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Tivoli\TDPVMware\VMwarePlugin\scriptsvmcli -f inquire_detail -q vmfs #TASK 6988 inquire_detail 20130611140938244 #RUN 6978 20130611140938244 #LANG en_US #PARAM BACKEND=TSM #ERROR ANS1087E (RC106) Access to the specified file or directory is denied #PARAM STATUS=error #END RUN 6978 20130611140938353 #END TASK 6988 #INFO FMM16014I The return code is 2. #END c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Tivoli\TDPVMware\VMwarePlugin\scripts Any pointers to what I'm missing? David
TSMVE vmcli syntax
Has anyone mastered vmcli syntax? I'm starting out with trying to do a query. Here's my query and the results: c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Tivoli\TDPVMware\VMwarePlugin\scriptsvmcli -f inquire_detail -q vmfs #TASK 6988 inquire_detail 20130611140938244 #RUN 6978 20130611140938244 #LANG en_US #PARAM BACKEND=TSM #ERROR ANS1087E (RC106) Access to the specified file or directory is denied #PARAM STATUS=error #END RUN 6978 20130611140938353 #END TASK 6988 #INFO FMM16014I The return code is 2. #END c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Tivoli\TDPVMware\VMwarePlugin\scripts Any pointers to what I'm missing? David
Re: MS SharePoint backups
We use Docave. IBM used to resale this as TSM for Sharepoint. They are no longer doing that but you can still get the same functionality directly from Docave. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] MS SharePoint backups Hello Everyone! q) How do you backup SharePoint with TSM? We are going through many changes around here. One is bringing in MS SharePoint. We know absolutely nothing about SharePoint. I'm not finding much on how to back it up with TSM. I would appreciate any pointers to info on now to backup SharePoint to TSM. Thanks Rick - The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.
Re: delete volhist for dbsnapshots
Is that the complete output from q volh t=dbs, i.e. is there only one snapshot backup? TSM won't delete the last db backup of a given type without a force action. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] delete volhist for dbsnapshots Issuing this command doesn't delete any vol historys for dbsnapshots tsm: TSMPOK_SERVER1del volh type=dbsnapshot todate=today-6 Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y ANR2467I DELETE VOLHISTORY: 0 sequential volume history entries were successfully deleted. tsm: TSMPOK_SERVER1q volh t=dbs Date/Time: 05/24/2013 05:11:32 Volume Type: DBSNAPSHOT Backup Series: 9 Backup Operation: 0 Volume Seq: 10,001 Device Class: NBGCLASS Volume Name: TSMNBG.DSS.369386678 Volume Location: TSMNBG Command: Database Backup ID High: 0 Database Backup ID LOW: 0 Database Backup Home Position: 0 Database Backup HLA: Database Backup LLA: Database Backup Total Data Bytes (MB) : 0 Database Backup total Log Bytes (MB) : 0 Database Backup Block Num High: 0 Database Backup Block Num Low: 0 Database Backup Stream Id: 1 Database Backup Volume Sequence for Stream: 10,001 Thanks, Tim Brown Supervisor Computer Operations Central Hudson Gas Electric
Re: Backups of TSMVE Datamovers
Keith's response that just came in is the only feedback I've received. I ended up having my first data mover backup up all the rest (with a different schedule) and my second data mover back up the first. My data movers are all VMs. My options for the first schedule is: Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnode=mitc -domain.vmfull=VMHOSTCLUSTER=MI- TC;VM=tsmpbw*;-VM=tsmpbw01 -MODE=IFIncremental The options for the second schedule is: Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnode=mitc -domain.vmfull=VMHOSTCLUSTER=MI- TC;VM=tsmpbw01 -MODE=IFIncremental -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 12:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backups of TSMVE Datamovers Hi David, Just wondering if you ever got any feedback on this. I'm backing up my data mover with the standard backup client, because that's what the book said. Wondering if anybody else had done it from a different datamover... W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Ehresman,David E. Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 8:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Backups of TSMVE Datamovers How are you backing up your TSMVE datamover VMs? With the standard backup client or with a TSMVE backup from another datamover? David
Re: TSM for VE sizing vs standard incremental forever
You noted that your back end will be all tape; be sure you read the requirements for tape section in the VE book. The metadata has to be split out and stay on disk. This is probably worth highlighting. TSM for VE writes control data to the Management Class defined by the Vmctlmc client option and restores data from there during the next backup cycle. The doc recommends writing it to a disk storage pool with no migration to tape. We have no disk storage pools and no copy storage pools. All our data goes to virtual tape (ProctecTier) which is replicated over IP to a DR ProctecTier. If we put our VMCTLMC to disk, we have no way of getting it to DR. So we put it to virtual tape along with all the other data, and use the NOPREEMPT YES server option to keep the restore running on one datamover from preempting the backup being run on another datamover using the same tape volume. David Ehresman University of Louisville
Re: Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host
Don't know about Windows, but since it is an IBM device, on AIX you use Atape and on Linux you use lintape instead of the TSM drivers. So for unix, the answer is no. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Re: TS3500/3584 managed by Linux host With the TS3500 scheduled to appear next Monday, I am triple-checking my list of things to do in preparation of the install, Memorial Day weekend. I have a question related to the server software. In the past, when installing a TSM server, I always excluded/ignored the option of installing the TIVsm-tsmscsi modules since I didn't have any SCSI devices. But with the TS3500 being seen as a SCSI device, do I need to install this missing module/feature on all of my TSM servers? On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:44 PM, David Bronder david-bron...@uiowa.eduwrote: TSM controls the library via a second LUN on one or more of the tape drives. By default (or by the IBM CE at installation time), the first drive in the library has the control path enabled, but you can enable it on additional drives (I believe lin_tape should handle failover for them). On AIX, they would be discovered as smc* devices; a quick bit of Googling suggests with lin_tape, they're /dev/IBMchanger* devices. You define the library using the control path device. On the network side, though, you'll likely want TCP port 80 and/or 443 open to the 3584 from somewhere to use the library's web interface, but that's unlikely to be needed from your TSM server unless you use the Java CLI from there to monitor or perform tasks on the library. If you're using a TS3000 System Console to manage your library, that's a whole other beast, which I've avoided so far. Maybe someone else can offer insight there, if you need to know. I'll defer to someone actually using AME or TKLM for drive encryption to speak to the networking requirements there. I'd guess that for AME, all communication is via the tape device, though. =Dave Zoltan Forray wrote: Thanks for the reply but I need more details than that. Does it need it's own fibre connection or does it piggy-back on one of the drives, in this case TS1130? What does it look like on a server? Does it have a separate drivers? For instance, my drives appear as /dev/IBMtapenn due to installation of lin_tape? How do I define the TSM path to the library? On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Thomas Denier thomas.den...@jeffersonhospital.org wrote: -Zoltan Forray wrote: - I am trying to prepare for the move from our 3494 to a TS3500/3584. With the 3494, it needed port 3494 open on the host system that was the library manager, for the ibmatl program to function. What ports are needed open through the firewall of the Linux servers that are library managers (is it as simple as 3584?)? How about for AME? Any additional ports needed for this function from the TS3500 to each library manager server (I assume the keys are only stored with the server that manages the tapes, not each server that uses a tape - or is this a bad/wrong assumption?) A TS3500 is eithter a relabeled 3584 or a compatible successor to the 3584; different Web sites give conflicting information on this point. All communications between the TSM server code and a TS3500 travel over the SAN connections between the two. Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University Hospital -- Hello World.David Bronder - Systems Architect Segmentation Fault ITS-EI, Univ. of Iowa Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm. david-bron...@uiowa.edu -- *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
Backups of TSMVE Datamovers
How are you backing up your TSMVE datamover VMs? With the standard backup client or with a TSMVE backup from another datamover? David
TSM for VE management class
Does TSM for VE honor include FILESPACE MANAGEMENTCLASS statements to direct selected VMs to a non-default management class? If so, can anyone give me a working example Include \VMFULL-Dsit1 nr is not having any effect for me. David
TSM for VE errors
I am getting an annoying amount of An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine. See the virtual machine's event log for details. In the dsmsched log of my new TSM for VE infrastructure. They occur for different VMs on different runs. I'm running TSMVE 6.4.0.1 against a vmware v5 farm. It's unlikely that high i/o on the VMs account for the inability to quiesce. Any tweaking suggestions? Troubleshooting ideas? David Ehresman University of Louisville
Re: Equating current 3494 configuration to TS3500
I've meant to ask - how does the library appear to the TSM server OS? Is it /dev/smc0,1,2,etc or /dev/IBMchanger0,1,2,etc? As /dev/smcX to AIX; as /dev/IBMchangerX to linux. David
TSM for VE
How can I confirm that my TSM for VE 6.4 is using change block tracking? David
Re: Addressing log pinned condition on V6 server
We address it with a larger log file. Our is 100G. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Addressing log pinned condition on V6 server But, how do you address/resolve this kind of problem? On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Allen S. Rout a...@ufl.edu wrote: On 04/16/2013 08:59 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote: The active session is only up to 222GB so it isn't volume - just one long transaction, I guess? (reliatively) Big files, transmitted (relatively) slowly, are my most common log-pin culprit. - Allen S. Rout -- *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 6.4.0.1 client on AIX
Anyone running the 6.4.0.1 client on AIX. I've upgraded a couple of AIX nodes from 6.2.2.0 to 6.4.0.1. I'm now getting message: ANR8214E Session open with XXX failed due to connection refusal. (SESSION: 9704) for these nodes that were working before the upgrade. David
Re: TSM 6.4.0.1 client on AIX
Hi Are these nodes running schedmode=prompted? yes On a ps -ef command, are the dsmc processes active? The **dsmcad** is active What port numbers are they listening on. 1500? Dsmcad is listening on 1502 Firewalls in place? No firewall between the client and server Anything in the dsmerror.log? No Can you run manual backups successfully? Yes On 18 February 2013 19:20, Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.eduwrote: Anyone running the 6.4.0.1 client on AIX. I've upgraded a couple of AIX nodes from 6.2.2.0 to 6.4.0.1. I'm now getting message: ANR8214E Session open with XXX failed due to connection refusal. (SESSION: 9704) for these nodes that were working before the upgrade. David
Re: TSM Admin Center
Thanks for the advice, Remco. My boss says that is not an option. Since I have gotten conflicting opinions on this question, I was interested in what an experienced user base thought. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Admin Center Hi David, to be blunt, if you don't know the answer... it should not be run (by you). On 5 feb. 2013, at 20:39, Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu wrote: I am only ever going to use TIP to run TSM stuff. Should the TSM Admin Center install be run as root or as non-root? David -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6 24821622
Re: Info Center link for TSM 6.4 manuals?
It loaded for me at that link but it loaded extremely slowly. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 10:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Info Center link for TSM 6.4 manuals? Anybody else have a working link for the 6.4 info center? I'm getting a blank page from this one since yesterday: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r4/index.jsp It used to work.. Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | wanda.prat...@icfi.com | www.icfi.com ICF International | 401 E. Pratt St, Suite 2214, Baltimore, MD 21202 | 410.539.1135 (o)
TSM Admin Center
I am only ever going to use TIP to run TSM stuff. Should the TSM Admin Center install be run as root or as non-root? David
Re: Tape library possible replacement - push/pull
Why? Because its different than a 3494. It uses IP to provide a web pages for managing the library. It uses fibre channel to communicate with the host about tape mounts/dismounts as well as actual data movement. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 1:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tape library possible replacement - push/pull As this project moves forward, I am doing more and more research since I am unfamiliar with this beast (3494 has been my baby since it was installed in 1995). The book talks about *to communicate with a server, the IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library uses a Fibre Channel interface (also called a port).* Why? What is this fibre channel interface used for? The 3494 use IP to communicate/manage the library and the drives inside the library used fibre plus an RS422 connection to the library manager. On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.comwrote: Ah. 2-legged robots will work OK too. If there isn't a cartridge assignment map, when the operators (who are paying attention!) put the cartridges in the I/O door, they use the library panel (or the web interface) to tell it which logical lib to assign that batch of cartridges to, then you run a TSM checkin as usual. The exact sequence varies depending on whether you have virtual I/O slots enabled with ALMS, but it's documented in the Operator's guide. So you should get the same resulting function as with your 3494. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tape library possible replacement - push/pull Operators paying attention when loading them ;-) Using category codes there are 2-library manager servers. Since only one LM is used for offsite, 99.9% of tapes bring checked in are handled by it with bulk check-in. - 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 On Jan 26, 2013 5:18 PM, Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.com wrote: Carts get assigned to the logical libraries based on a volser range filter in the library interface. No, that's not an absolute restriction, it's just a convenience. It allows the case where operators throw scratch tapes into the physical I/O door and the library itself can shift them to the virtual I/O door of the TSM library you want them checked in to, assuming the library is partitioned into multiple logical libraries. How do you get the 3494 library divided now so that scratch tapes get the category code of the appropriate library? Or have you implemented 1 library with TSM library sharing, or what? 'Splain, and we'll help you figgur it out On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.com wrote: Yep, pretty much that simple. Check the tapes out of one library, check them into another. No more complicated than if you are going to a DR site that has a 3584 rather than a 3494. TSM doesn't care. There are some differences in the library management: If you are talking to the 3494 library interface via TCP/IP now, that changes. (Some people use the TCP/IP interface, some use a serial cable.) TSM talks to the 3584 library via the atape drive over the fibre, it has its own device number/path. Thomas already mentioned that the 3584 can be partitioned into logical libraries. If you have multiple TSM servers or other apps using the 3494, you keep them separated now by 3494 category codes, those go away. You have the logical libraries now instead. Carts get assigned to the logical libraries based on a volser range filter in the library interface. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 2:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Tape library possible replacement - push/pull We are starting to examine the idea of replacing our aging 3494 (installed 1995) due to difficulty in getting parts and having more frequent outages due to robot issues. Since we have 17-TS1130 drives, the natural transition would be to a TS3500/3584. If we go down this route, one issue might be the floorspace/placement, which might require a weekend eject-push-pull-reload. Never having dealt
Re: dsmadmc 6.4.0.0
you might have to hold down the shift key to get this option. Thanks Sven. It was the shift key that I was missing. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Sven Seefeld Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 4:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] dsmadmc 6.4.0.0 Hi David, Just installed TSM client 6.4.0.0 64 bit on a WIN 7 machine. Now when I try to run dsmadmc as an Administrator, I get the following error: c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclientdsmadmc ANS1398E Initialization functions cannot open one of the Tivoli Storage Manager logs or a related file: c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror.log. errno = 13, Permission denied Anyone else seen this? being a and running a program as administrator are two different things on windows (with UAC on)! Right click on the dsmadmc (or the cmd / command prompt) and choose run as administrator, you might have to hold down the shift key to get this option. Regards, Sven
dsmadmc 6.4.0.0
Just installed TSM client 6.4.0.0 64 bit on a WIN 7 machine. Now when I try to run dsmadmc as an Administrator, I get the following error: c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclientdsmadmc ANS1398E Initialization functions cannot open one of the Tivoli Storage Manager logs or a related file: c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror.log. errno = 13, Permission denied Anyone else seen this? David
Re: TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations
Does the datamover's ability to run multiple threads in VE 6.4 mitigate the need for multiple data-movers per ESX? Is it now reasonable to have a single data-mover per ESX? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 8:36 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations Hi Ken, Yes, TSM/VE 6.4 lets you do backups of many VM's in parallel by making the data mover multi-threaded. But each thread is still just doing one VMWare snapshot of each VM - snap, backup, remove the snap. I have a customer with some non-TSM software which also makes VMware snapshots. Having multiple VMWare snapshots of the same VM in progress should be avoided. Should it work OK? yes Does it work OK? not always VMware is famous for getting tangled in its own underwear removing snapshots. V5 does it better than V4, but there's no reason to temp fate. Removing a snapshot requires merging all the changed blocks from the snapshot back into the VM image, and the more you have outstanding, the worse performance problem you are creating when you try to remove the snap. We've seen snapshot removal processes render VM's completely non-responsive before. This really has nothing in particular to do with TSM/VE, except the fact that TSM/VE is using VMware snapshots to do what it does. The same caveat applies to any two things, including human beings, that are trying to use VMware snapshots of the same VM at the same time. I was merely pointing out that this would be a reason one might need to be careful when scheduling TSM/VE backups. W -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kenneth Bury Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 7:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations Wanda, Please expand on your statement where you suggest making sure we don't run backups at the same time that other software is running that also uses snapshots. One of the new features in TSM for VE v6.4 is the ability to run VM backups in parallel, many of them. Ken On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Prather, Wanda wanda.prat...@icfi.comwrote: I agree that using the in guest client in a VM is easier for back up; the big deal is when it comes time to do a DR. Then having the VM image from TSM/VE is easier to do your full machine restores with. (I'm willing to do most anything to avoid having to deal with a MS System State restore!) As far as scheduling, my customer uses the plugin to create the schedule for the VM's. But, once you do that, go over to the TSM server/TIP and look at the schedule it created; it's just a normal TSM client schedule, but with a bunch of options that are specific to VE. So you can doctor it on the server side. That seems to be the easiest route - create with the plug in, tweak with the TIP. Creating separate schedules for specific VM's is tricky because of VMotion. The beauty of being able to wild-card the schedule with the ESX hostname, is that if/when VMotion moves a VM to another ESX host, the backup for that ESX host will detect the new VM and it will still get backed up. To set up schedules that are specific to a single VM, you are going to have to be a little sneaky about using multiple schedules and wildcards so that you still can back up that VM when it moves, and not back it up multiple times. Although that shouldn't be a big deal in terms of data with these VE block-level backups (which are so delightfully small!), I can foresee unpleasantness if you have multiple backup runs creating overlapping VMWare snapshots. The only thing we've really had to work around, though, is making sure we don't run backups at the same time that other software is running that also uses snapshots. We havent' tried to isolate a schedule for a single VM. YMMV -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike De Gasperis Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 2:16 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE 6.4 Questions/Recommendations I posted this up on the adsm.org forum but I'm hoping I get more hits here. We're getting ready to implement the agent at one of our facilities and I'm curious to see how everyone else is accomplishing some things we did relatively easy the old way. How are you scheduling certain VM's at different time frames? Wondering if folks are using the TSM scheduler to do it and how that looks or if the vCenter plugin has been an easier option for you. Policy and retention wise how are you handling VM's that may require a longer retention than others? Wondering if folks are just using separate management classes within the same policy or using multiple data move nodes. I'm also wondering if you're
Re: TS3500 test environment
Yes, you can remove drives and control path from a logical TS3500 library that has volumes. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 12:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500 test environment I agree that we would not be able to retain a control path to the partition when all the tape drives were gone, but that would not in itself be a problem at times when we were not performing tests involving tape activity. The question is whether the TS3500 firmware would allow us to remove all the drives and the control path from a partition with tape volumes, leaving the partition unusable until we brought back at least one tape drive. -ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote: - To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU From: Paul Zarnowski Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Date: 01/09/2013 11:56 Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500 test environment On TS3500s, I believe the library control interface for a partition is assigned to one of the tape drives in that partition. Thus, with no drives, there can be no control of the partition. I believe the answer is that this is not possible - you must have at least one drive assigned to each partition. ..Paul At 11:25 AM 1/9/2013, Thomas Denier wrote: I am in the process of setting up a test environment for our Version 6 TSM servers. The servers run under zSeries Linux and are currently at the 6.2.2.0 level. The main motivation for setting up a test environment at this time is to support an upgrade in the near future. Our production environment uses a TS3500 tape library with the ALMS feature. We will need tape infrastructure available to the test environment for some tests, but we do not wish to have any tape drives permanently attached to the test environment. Is it possible to have a logical library remain in existence with tape volumes assigned but with no tape drives assigned? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 CIT Infrastructure / Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em: p...@cornell.edu
Re: Reclamation of Virtual Tapes
We reclaim our virtual tapes. They have the same waste patterns as physical tape and are certainly as expensive. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:10 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes Sounds like someone set the reclaim storage pool on the virtual tape pool to the physical tape pool. I know of no reason why not to reclaim virtual tapes. Wish I had one to play with. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Welton, Charles Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:10 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation of Virtual Tapes Hello: We have a TSM instance that uses virtual tapes as our primary backup data pool. The data on the virtual tapes are eventually migrated to tape. We are currently down to 3 virtual scratch tapes and 6 physical scratch tapes. I noticed that we are not running any reclamation processes on our virtual tape pool. It seems we have a hand-full of under-utilized virtual tapes. I went ahead and ran a manual reclamation on the virtual tape pool and I noticed the output tape pool is a physical tape. I assumed that the virtual tape would reclaim to another virtual tape. Is that not the case? Could there be a reason why reclamation shouldn't be ran on a virtual tape pool? Thank you... Charles This email contains information which may be PROPRIETARY IN NATURE OR OTHERWISE PROTECTED BY LAW FROM DISCLOSURE and is intended only for the use of the addresses(s) named above. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately.
Re: More files in copy pool than primary pool?
As the q occ shows, there are two storage pools. nr-pvl is the primary and nr-ofl is the secondary. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Chavdar Cholev Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 5:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] More files in copy pool than primary pool? how many pri stg pools do you have and what is hierarchy (next stg) the other thing is check expire inventory process for errors Chavdar On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu wrote: I'm running TSM 6.2.4.0 on AIX. How can a node have more files in the copy storagepool (nr-ofl) then in the primary storagepool (nr-pvl)? tsm: ULTSMq occ idmtest5 Node Name Type Filespace FSID StorageNumber of Physical Logical Name Pool Name Files Space Space Occupied Occupied (MB) (MB) -- -- - -- - - - IDMTEST5 Bkup / 3 NR-OFL 141,877 7,498.54 6,189.31 IDMTEST5 Bkup / 3 NR-PVL 141,877 7,498.54 6,187.91 IDMTEST5 Bkup /boot 4 NR-OFL70 84.64 80.92 IDMTEST5 Bkup /boot 4 NR-PVL70 84.64 80.91 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u02 11 NR-OFL45,576 7,317.32 6,744.50 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u02 11 NR-PVL45,575 7,315.12 6,741.28 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u03 10 NR-OFL 8,003 1,082.73938.76 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u03 10 NR-PVL 8,001 1,082.20937.93 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u04 9 NR-OFL55,928 38,242.34 37,251.88 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u04 9 NR-PVL55,865 38,242.29 37,250.60
Re: More files in copy pool than primary pool?
No move data involved. In fact, the problem persists after deleting all the copy pool volumes for this node and doing a fresh backup stg. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 9:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] More files in copy pool than primary pool? I think if you do a MOVE NODEDATA to migrate data from one primary pool to another, the data in the copy pool stays intact. I don't think there is a way to expire it other than through the normal node-prompted expiration. On 12/05/2012 11:20 AM, Ehresman,David E. wrote: I'm running TSM 6.2.4.0 on AIX. How can a node have more files in the copy storagepool (nr-ofl) then in the primary storagepool (nr-pvl)? tsm: ULTSMq occ idmtest5 Node Name Type Filespace FSID StorageNumber of Physical Logical Name Pool Name Files Space Space Occupied Occupied (MB) (MB) -- -- - -- - - - IDMTEST5 Bkup / 3 NR-OFL 141,877 7,498.54 6,189.31 IDMTEST5 Bkup / 3 NR-PVL 141,877 7,498.54 6,187.91 IDMTEST5 Bkup /boot 4 NR-OFL70 84.64 80.92 IDMTEST5 Bkup /boot 4 NR-PVL70 84.64 80.91 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u02 11 NR-OFL45,576 7,317.32 6,744.50 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u02 11 NR-PVL45,575 7,315.12 6,741.28 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u03 10 NR-OFL 8,003 1,082.73938.76 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u03 10 NR-PVL 8,001 1,082.20937.93 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u04 9 NR-OFL55,928 38,242.34 37,251.88 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u04 9 NR-PVL55,865 38,242.29 37,250.60 -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S048, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
More files in copy pool than primary pool?
I'm running TSM 6.2.4.0 on AIX. How can a node have more files in the copy storagepool (nr-ofl) then in the primary storagepool (nr-pvl)? tsm: ULTSMq occ idmtest5 Node Name Type Filespace FSID StorageNumber of Physical Logical Name Pool Name Files Space Space Occupied Occupied (MB) (MB) -- -- - -- - - - IDMTEST5 Bkup / 3 NR-OFL 141,877 7,498.54 6,189.31 IDMTEST5 Bkup / 3 NR-PVL 141,877 7,498.54 6,187.91 IDMTEST5 Bkup /boot 4 NR-OFL70 84.64 80.92 IDMTEST5 Bkup /boot 4 NR-PVL70 84.64 80.91 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u02 11 NR-OFL45,576 7,317.32 6,744.50 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u02 11 NR-PVL45,575 7,315.12 6,741.28 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u03 10 NR-OFL 8,003 1,082.73938.76 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u03 10 NR-PVL 8,001 1,082.20937.93 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u04 9 NR-OFL55,928 38,242.34 37,251.88 IDMTEST5 Bkup /u04 9 NR-PVL55,865 38,242.29 37,250.60
Re: Stable Version of TSM 6
Anyone running TSM 6.4 in production? How does it look? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2012 11:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Stable Version of TSM 6 # 1: Is there a STABLE version of 6 that would be recommended? Right now, we are running TSM at version 5.5.2.0, but we are thinking about upgrading. I am not interested in getting to the latest and greatest version. I am interested in getting to a supported, stable version. Ive got several customers running 6.3.2 on AIX and Windows. Some were done as new servers, some as upgrades, no difference. I have been very impressed with stability. Really. # 2: Based on the recommendation in question # 1, can we run that version of TSM 6 on Windows? Sure. But: a) make sure you have the recommended quality of hardware (For example, RAM requirements are much higher for V6 than V5. Check the web site for recommendations) b) you can't convert from one platform to the other as part of upgrading a 5.5 DB, so if you're upgrading the server you have, it will be on the same platform. c) whether you choose Windows as your platform for a new server, depends on how much I/O you have to move per day, can you get enough HBA's in the box, etc. I've got no problems with somebody asking me to move 5-8 TB per day on say, a relatively new Windows box, at least 4 cores, Win2K8 64, 32G RAM, good disk array. More than that, I question whether Windows is suitable. Everybody else on this list will have their own opinions about that. #2a: What about a VM? TSM server is not supported as a Windows VM (VMware or the MS equivalent) if there are tape drivers involved. That means if you are doing all disk backups, it's supported. If you have physical tape or a VTL attached, the answer is no. Hope that helps! W
Re: Who is performing Client Based Encryption and Compression
I think q actlog begindate=today-ndays msgno=4968 is more efficient. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Who is performing Client Based Encryption and Compression For compression: q actlog begindate=today-ndays search=ane4968 Non-zero values mean the client is compressing. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Chad Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Who is performing Client Based Encryption and Compression Fellow TSM Admins, We are in the process of bringing VTLs into our TSM Environment. In order to take full advantage of deduplication features on the VTL we need to go after the clients that are performing client based encryption and compression. With that in mind, does anyone know an easy way to tell which clients are using these features? Thanks, Chad Harris
DR scenario
Anyone doing non-TSM replication to their DR site, e.g. ProcTier IP replication? If so, I would be interested in talking to you about how you do DR recovery, especially how you sync up what tapes got replicated vs what your recovered TSM DB knows. David Ehresman University of Louisville deehr...@louisville.edumailto:deehr...@louisville.edu
Bad rman/TSM for Oracle restore performance
I have a Linux box running oracle and using rman/TSM for Oracle for backup and restores. TDPO is 5.5.1.0. The TSM client API is 6.3.0.0. The TSM Server, running on AIX, is 6.2.4.0. Backups times are acceptable, approximated 250GB in an hour using two rman channels. This drives the TSM server 1G Ethernet link at about 80MB/sec. Restores are so slow I do not have a time yet for restoring the 250GB. The linux server has no load; top shows: top - 14:54:09 up 4:39, 8 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00 Tasks: 274 total, 1 running, 273 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16463088k total, 16368212k used,94876k free, 305156k buffers Swap: 8388600k total,0k used, 8388600k free, 15201560k cached TSM q sess f=d commands against the two TDPO sessions issued every 15 seconds shows each thread in a SendW state that lasts about 3.5 minutes, then the client receives a chunk of data, then goes into another 3.5 minute SendW. This repeats: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 6, Release 2, Level 2.0 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ULTSM: AIX Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 4.0 Server date/time: 10/19/12 14:53:02 Last access: 10/19/12 14:43:04 ANS8000I Server command: 'q sess 2508358 f=d' Sess Number: 2,508,358 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip Sess State: SendW Wait Time: 3.6 M Bytes Sent: 477.4 M Bytes Recvd: 693 Sess Type: Node Platform: TDPO LinuxAMD64 Client Name: DBULSD4T Media Access Status: Current input volumes: VR0742L3,(2615 Seconds) User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: Proxy By Storage Agent: Actions: ObjRtrv ANS8002I Highest return code was 0. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 6, Release 2, Level 2.0 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ULTSM: AIX Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 4.0 Server date/time: 10/19/12 14:53:02 Last access: 10/19/12 14:43:04 ANS8000I Server command: 'q sess 2508359 f=d' Sess Number: 2,508,359 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip Sess State: SendW Wait Time: 3.6 M Bytes Sent: 546.1 M Bytes Recvd: 693 Sess Type: Node Platform: TDPO LinuxAMD64 Client Name: DBULSD4T Media Access Status: Current input volumes: VR0746L3,(2615 Seconds) User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: Proxy By Storage Agent: Actions: ObjRtrv ANS8002I Highest return code was 0. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 6, Release 2, Level 2.0 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ULTSM: AIX Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 4.0 Server date/time: 10/19/12 14:53:17 Last access: 10/19/12 14:43:04 ANS8000I Server command: 'q sess 2508358 f=d' Sess Number: 2,508,358 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip Sess State: SendW Wait Time: 9 S Bytes Sent: 517.4 M Bytes Recvd: 693 Sess Type: Node Platform: TDPO LinuxAMD64 Client Name: DBULSD4T Media Access Status: Current input volumes: VR0742L3,(2630 Seconds) User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: Proxy By Storage Agent: Actions: ObjRtrv ANS8002I Highest return code was 0. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 6, Release 2, Level 2.0 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ULTSM: AIX Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 4.0 Server date/time: 10/19/12 14:53:17 Last access: 10/19/12 14:53:17 ANS8000I Server command: 'q sess 2508359 f=d' Sess Number: 2,508,359 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip Sess State: SendW Wait Time: 9 S Bytes Sent: 591.8 M Bytes Recvd: 693 Sess Type: Node Platform: TDPO LinuxAMD64 Client Name: DBULSD4T Media Access Status: Current input volumes: VR0746L3,(2631 Seconds) User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: Proxy By Storage Agent: Actions: ObjRtrv ANS8002I Highest return code was 0 So what is rman/oracle doing in the 3.5 minutes between its contacts with TSM? Any ideas for to fix this or at least how to troubleshoot it? David Ehresman University of Louisville
Re: Bad rman/TSM for Oracle restore performance
Its virtual tape -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 4:03 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Bad rman/TSM for Oracle restore performance is this VTL or physical tape? Just as a troubleshooting step, I would attempt a single-channel backup/restore to see if that makes a difference. (whether it's physical or virtual) It's been a while, but I remember having weird problems like this in the past with multi-channel restores on physical tape. Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew Internet deehr...@louisville.edu Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 10/19/2012 03:35 PM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject [ADSM-L] Bad rman/TSM for Oracle restore performance I have a Linux box running oracle and using rman/TSM for Oracle for backup and restores. TDPO is 5.5.1.0. The TSM client API is 6.3.0.0. The TSM Server, running on AIX, is 6.2.4.0. Backups times are acceptable, approximated 250GB in an hour using two rman channels. This drives the TSM server 1G Ethernet link at about 80MB/sec. Restores are so slow I do not have a time yet for restoring the 250GB. The linux server has no load; top shows: top - 14:54:09 up 4:39, 8 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00 Tasks: 274 total, 1 running, 273 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16463088k total, 16368212k used,94876k free, 305156k buffers Swap: 8388600k total,0k used, 8388600k free, 15201560k cached TSM q sess f=d commands against the two TDPO sessions issued every 15 seconds shows each thread in a SendW state that lasts about 3.5 minutes, then the client receives a chunk of data, then goes into another 3.5 minute SendW. This repeats: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 6, Release 2, Level 2.0 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ULTSM: AIX Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 4.0 Server date/time: 10/19/12 14:53:02 Last access: 10/19/12 14:43:04 ANS8000I Server command: 'q sess 2508358 f=d' Sess Number: 2,508,358 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip Sess State: SendW Wait Time: 3.6 M Bytes Sent: 477.4 M Bytes Recvd: 693 Sess Type: Node Platform: TDPO LinuxAMD64 Client Name: DBULSD4T Media Access Status: Current input volumes: VR0742L3,(2615 Seconds) User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: Proxy By Storage Agent: Actions: ObjRtrv ANS8002I Highest return code was 0. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 6, Release 2, Level 2.0 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ULTSM: AIX Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 4.0 Server date/time: 10/19/12 14:53:02 Last access: 10/19/12 14:43:04 ANS8000I Server command: 'q sess 2508359 f=d' Sess Number: 2,508,359 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip Sess State: SendW Wait Time: 3.6 M Bytes Sent: 546.1 M Bytes Recvd: 693 Sess Type: Node Platform: TDPO LinuxAMD64 Client Name: DBULSD4T Media Access Status: Current input volumes: VR0746L3,(2615 Seconds) User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: Proxy By Storage Agent: Actions: ObjRtrv ANS8002I Highest return code was 0. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 6, Release 2, Level 2.0 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ULTSM: AIX Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 4.0 Server date/time: 10/19/12 14:53:17 Last access: 10/19/12 14:43:04 ANS8000I Server command: 'q sess 2508358 f=d' Sess Number: 2,508,358 Comm. Method: Tcp/Ip Sess State: SendW Wait Time: 9 S Bytes Sent: 517.4 M Bytes Recvd: 693 Sess Type: Node Platform: TDPO LinuxAMD64 Client Name: DBULSD4T Media Access Status: Current input volumes: VR0742L3,(2630 Seconds) User Name: Date/Time First Data Sent: Proxy By Storage Agent: Actions: ObjRtrv ANS8002I Highest return code was 0. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Administrative Interface - Version 6, Release 2, Level 2.0 (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2010. All Rights Reserved. Session established with server ULTSM: AIX Server Version 6, Release 2, Level 4.0 Server date/time: 10/19/12 14:53:17
Re: unaccounted for volumes
Here is a script that I got at a Share conference years ago that lists tapes
that are marked Private but are not being used:
tsm: ULTSMq script q_lost_tapes f=l
Name Line Command
Number
-- --
Q_LOST_TA- 10 select volume_name as Private Tapes NOT in Use -
PES
20 from libvolumes -
30 where status='Private' -
40 and libvolumes.volume_name not in -
50 (select volume_name from volumes) -
60 and libvolumes.volume_name not in -
80 (select volume_name from volhistory -
90 where type in ('BACKUPFULL', -
100'BACKUPINCR', -
110'DBSNAPSHOT', -
120'EXPORT'))
tsm: ULTSM
I update such tapes to status Scratch.
David Ehresman
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee,
Gary
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 2:36 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] unaccounted for volumes
Tsm server 6.2.2 running on RHEL v6 with a 3494 library and 8 ts1120 drives.
Was doing some checking on tape inventory and usage for one of our tsm servers.
A
Select count(*) from libvolumes
Shows 298 volumes in the library.
Checking volhistory for database backup volumes shows 3 tapes in that capacity.
Check of pending volumes shows 1
And summing up all tape pool volumes gives 118.
A
Select count(*) from libvolumes where status='Private'
Shows 160
And
Select for scratch volumes gives 137.
The upshot is that I have around 40 volumes in the libvolumes table listed as
private, but not accounted for in the volumes or volhistory?
Audit library ields no errors.
Can I just check these out and re check them in as scratch?
What would account for this.
p.s.
I have the volhist file from the moment the server was placed online. The lost
volumes do not appear there anywhere.
Thanks for any help.
Gary Lee
Senior System Programmer
Ball State University
phone: 765-285-1310
Re: Stopping backups from running during certain hours
You would want to grep for Node in the q sess output so that you don't cancel
Admin sessions.
-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex
Paschal
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:41 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Stopping backups from running during certain hours
As far as killing those sessions goes, something like this might do the
job. Just put it in a script, cron it for 7am.
dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa cancel session all
Heheh - talk about a big stick.
If you need it to cancel only certain nodes' sessions, you could try
something like this. Put the node names in a text file, and ...
dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa -dataonly=yes -tab query session | grep -wf
nodes.txt | awk -F\asdf '{print $1}' | tr -d , | awk '{print cancel
session , $1}' | dsmadmc -id=id -pa=pa
Note: The asdf is actually a typed tab character.
It will definitely need polishing before being ready for production,
error checking, logging, notifying, stuff like that, but that's the
essense of the script.
On 9/26/2012 7:32 AM, Zoltan Forray wrote:
*Could you monitor the TSM sessions and ensure that if one is still going
it it put on hold from 7:00 am to 11:00 pm during the work week.*
Yes, the above sentence is what I have been tasked with.
Some back-story
We have some non-local nodes that often backup terabytes of data, thereby
sometimes running for 16-hours and often many days. Unfortunately, due to
their physical location and other networking issues, their traffic comes
across a 10/100 connection. We recently had some networking slowdowns and
someone noticed a large amount of traffic across this switch (never mind
the problem was actually diagnosed to be a firewall problem) .
even-though this has been happening for a long, long time. So, TSM has
become the whipping-boy for network related slowdowns (2% of the TSM nodes
are not local/on private GB connection)
I am not aware of a server-side function/process that can kill a running
backup (never-mind that a physical body will have to check active backup
sessions and figure out which might cause problems) and stop the node from
reconnecting almost immediately (unless something has changed, you can't
update a node to lock it while it is active).
Thoughts.suggestions...ideas..rants
--
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Re: ibm hsm for windows download
We download licensed TSM software from Passport Advantage, http://www-01.ibm.com/software/howtobuy/passportadvantage/ -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, Gary Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ibm hsm for windows download I need a little help from sone one out there. Trying to download ibm hsm for windows. We have purchased it, and I even have the proof of entitlement document. However, no amount of searching in the ibm download site has lead me to the product. The closest I've gotten is a quick start guide. Can anyone out there point me in the right direction? I find tsm for space management, tsm for databases, tsm extended edition, but no hsm for windows. Thank you in advance for any assistance. Gary Lee Senior System Programmer Ball State University phone: 765-285-1310
Re: ANR0162W resource limit was reached
See the Flash at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21428557 David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 11:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR0162W resource limit was reached WARNING: TSM03: ANR0162W Supplemental database diagnostic information: -1:54067:-1589 ([IBM][CLI Driver] SQL1589N The database connection failed because an operating system resource limit was reached. SQLSTATE=54067 ).~ Source:TSM-TSM_SERVER I am receiving this message from one of my TSM servers and I think it is a connection limit to the DB. IBM says the limit is 1024 connections. The errors happen around the same time each night when there are not any scripts or queries running, only backups. The question is what generates a connection? Is each session 1 connection? The server is limited to 900 sessions. Is there a command to see the number of connections to the DB? TSM 6.2.3.100 AIX 6.1 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: Schedule Port on client?
Is the TSM Client Acceptor Daemon service running on the exchange box? That is the service that listens on 1502 when webports 1502 and managedservices schedule are in dsm.opt. Also does the Windows firewall, if running, allow incoming on 1502? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 3:53 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Schedule Port on client? We're running a TSM Schedule to prompt TDP-Exchange 6.x to start a backup. It issues the C:\EXCINCR.CMD command. Two Exchange servers one will run a TSM-Server initiated backup, one will not. The node manager claims that 1502 is the port-spec in the Exch DSM.OPT file and that both are configured identically. Port 1502 isn't listening, which would explain why a prompted backup would not start. But, ONE of the servers does backup via schedule. TELNET ip 1502 fails on both; we've checked firewalls and that traffic is passable. Thus, trying to see what TSM THINKS it is supposed to use. Have found that Q N F=D reports null value for low-level address on several nodes, regardless of BAclient or TDP client. Harold Vandeventer Systems Programmer State of Kansas - Office of Information Technology Services harold.vandeven...@ks.gov (785) 296-0631 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Denier Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 2:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Schedule Port on client? -Harold Vandeventer wrote: - Somewhere, on the TSM Server side, is stored the port number the client has specified in their DSM.OPT file. Wherever the prompted schedule keeps the value to call the node at its IP and then port number. I'm trying to find that value. It'll be 1501 for the BAClient we're confused re the value for the TDP-Exchange client. Just trying to prove a condition before I open a PMR. We get messages like: ANR2716E Schedule prompter was not able to contact client JUPITER using type 1 (10.123.123.123 1501). when the server is not able to make the network connection needed to start a scheduled event using prompted mode scheduling. Are you getting this kind of message for the Exchange client events? Thomas Denier, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital [Confidentiality notice:] *** This e-mail message, including attachments, if any, is intended for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, or disclosure is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy the original message, including all copies, Thank you. ***
TSM for Sharepont vs Docave version numbers
Can anyone tell me what the newest TSM for Sharepoint version/release is? And what Docave version/release is distributed with that TSM for Sharepoint level?
Base release(s) of TSM 6.2
What is/are the base release(s) of AIX TSM Server 6.2, i.e. which install media include the licenses? David
DB2 hang or crash
AIX APAR IV22062 describes a situation in which a hang or a crash might occur in DB2 versions earlier than DB2 10.1. At the time of this document's initial publication, all Tivoli Storage Manager servers are running a version of DB2 that is affected. The DB2 product provides a techdoc for all known operating system issues. This techdoc should be referenced by Tivoli Storage Manager users to determine if they might be exposed to problems based on the operating system level: This AIX APAR addresses a problem causing private memory corruption on all DB2 versions prior to DB2 Version 10.1. Only systems running AIX 6.1 TL06 SP8, TL07 SP4, or AIX 7.1 TL01 SP4 are vulnerable, with corresponding bos.rte.libc levels of 6.1.6.18, 6.1.7.15 and 7.1.1.15. The common symptoms are a DB2 server hang or crash due to malloc heap corruption, with the trap file diagnostics frequently including malloc or initializeXalan functions. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21606126myns=swgtivmynp=OCSSGSG7mync=E
Re: Journaling support question
I am backing up to physical tape. Is there any way to get mmbackup to back up more than 100 files at a time? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Kenneth Bury Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 6:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Journaling support question Are you using mmbackup? http://ibm.co/NbcaQk On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Erwann Simon erwann.si...@free.fr wrote: Hi David, Journaling is supported for most filesystems (ext3, ext4, vxfs...) but is not supported for gpfs. Regards, Erwann - Mail original - De: David E. Ehresman deehr...@louisville.edu À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Envoyé: Jeudi 5 Juillet 2012 18:52:33 Objet: [ADSM-L] Journaling support question On Redhat Linux 5.5 with TSM client 6.3, is journaling on a gpfs filespace supported? David -- Ken Bury
Journaling support question
On Redhat Linux 5.5 with TSM client 6.3, is journaling on a gpfs filespace supported? David
ANR0299 log is full
Does message ANR0299I mean the ACTIVELOGDIRECTORY is full or the ARCHLOGDIRECOTRY is full?
Re: ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout
This is a classic symptom of a firewall blocking the cad port. It works the first time because the cad initiated the session and then the tsm server times out the next time it reaches out to the client because the firewall is blocking. So you have to use webports to designate what port cad is going to use and then open that port in the fire wall which can be a enterprise firewall or a firewall running on the client. David Ehresman -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout A few clients are failing with ANR8213W Session open with 10.1.4.130 timed out If we restart the tsm service on the client the next scheduled backup runs ok but the next one times out. I even coded the hla and lla and set the client option file with tcpclientaddress, still issues. Any suggestions. Issue with 3-4 clients. Tim Brown
Re: ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout
That's not quite right. The port you want to telnet to is specified as the first port on the webports option. If there is no webport option, the tsmclient picks one randomly. The tsm server will try to connect to the port that cad connected on when it started up. If it is random, not specified on a webports option, it is kind of hard to write the firewall rule. David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 12:56 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout From the TSM server: telnet hla lla Example: telnet servera 1501 If it hangs and eventually times out, you have a firewall problem, as David mentions. If it says Connection Refused or similar, the CAD is not listening on that port. If it connects, your plumbing is fine. Some other things to check: Have you set tcpclientport? Does netstat show your port in LISTENING state? netstat -an | find /I listen Alex On 6/6/2012 7:19 AM, Ehresman,David E. wrote: This is a classic symptom of a firewall blocking the cad port. It works the first time because the cad initiated the session and then the tsm server times out the next time it reaches out to the client because the firewall is blocking. So you have to use webports to designate what port cad is going to use and then open that port in the fire wall which can be a enterprise firewall or a firewall running on the client. David Ehresman -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout A few clients are failing with ANR8213W Session open with 10.1.4.130 timed out If we restart the tsm service on the client the next scheduled backup runs ok but the next one times out. I even coded the hla and lla and set the client option file with tcpclientaddress, still issues. Any suggestions. Issue with 3-4 clients. Tim Brown
Re: ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout
I may have made a false assumption. Are you using the TSM Client Acceptor service, dsmcad? If not, then all I've said about ports (except the right one has to be open thru the firewall) is wrong. But if you are using cad, the Windows client manual says: Webports The webports option enables the use of the Web client outside a firewall. The webports option enables the use of the Web client outside a firewall by specifying the TCP/IP port number used by the Tivoli Storage Manager client acceptor service and Web Client Agent service for communications with the Web client. Values for both the client acceptor service and the Web Client Agent service are required. If you do not specify this option, the default value, zero (0), is used for both ports. This causes TCP/IP to randomly assign a free port number for the client acceptor service and the Web Client Agent service. The port value TCP/IP assigns is in the range of 1024 through 5000. Supported Clients This option is valid for all clients. The Tivoli Storage Manager client API does not support this option. Options File Place this option in the client options file (dsm.opt).. You can set this option on the Web Client tab, WEB Ports fields of the Preferences editor. Syntax WEBPorts cadport agentport Parameters cadport Specifies the required Tivoli Storage Manager client acceptor service port number. The range of values is 1000 through 32767. If a value is not specified, the default, zero (0), causes TCP/IP to randomly assign a free port number. agentport Specifies the required Tivoli Storage Manager Web client agent service port number. The range of values is 1000 through 32767. If a value is not specified, the default, zero (0), causes TCP/IP to randomly assign a free port number. Examples Options file: webports 2123 2124 Command line: -webports=2123,2124 Chapter 12. Processing options 517 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 2:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout Netstat is listening on port 1501, tcpport is 1500 in dsm.opt Telnet to server via 1501 works 1500 doesn't. We have always coded tcpport 1500 in client dsm.opt ? Other 2008 servers configured same work. Thanks, Tim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Wednesday, 06 June, 2012 12:56 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout From the TSM server: telnet hla lla Example: telnet servera 1501 If it hangs and eventually times out, you have a firewall problem, as David mentions. If it says Connection Refused or similar, the CAD is not listening on that port. If it connects, your plumbing is fine. Some other things to check: Have you set tcpclientport? Does netstat show your port in LISTENING state? netstat -an | find /I listen Alex On 6/6/2012 7:19 AM, Ehresman,David E. wrote: This is a classic symptom of a firewall blocking the cad port. It works the first time because the cad initiated the session and then the tsm server times out the next time it reaches out to the client because the firewall is blocking. So you have to use webports to designate what port cad is going to use and then open that port in the fire wall which can be a enterprise firewall or a firewall running on the client. David Ehresman -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] ANR8213W schedule fails client timeout A few clients are failing with ANR8213W Session open with 10.1.4.130 timed out If we restart the tsm service on the client the next scheduled backup runs ok but the next one times out. I even coded the hla and lla and set the client option file with tcpclientaddress, still issues. Any suggestions. Issue with 3-4 clients. Tim Brown
TSM V6.2 DB Directories
Is doing a TSM DB backup/restore the only way to remove a TSM DB directory in V6.2? David
Re: TSM 6.3 NAS Filer backup stg issues
I'm confused. A backup stg copies data from a primary TSM storage pool (tape in your case) to a copy TSM storage pool (again tape). During this process there should not be any N-Series involvement. It strictly a TSM tape to tape function. What am I missing? David -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:11 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.3 NAS Filer backup stg issues Hi All I've got a problem with running backup stg of nas filer NDMP backups. I have a TSM 6.3.1 server on RHEL 5.7 X86_64, an N-Series filer at Data On-Tap 8.1RC2 and A shared TS3310 library with LTO5 drives. Actually I have two setups exactly the same in different cities, except one has more data and 3 drives and the other has less data and two drives. NDMP backups are configured to write directly to tape and seem to work fine. The backup completes cleanly if slowly, and the limited restores I have done worked once I went to 6.3.1. But, I want an offsite copy, and so run backup stg against the NAS primary tape pool. This is consistently failing - but only on certain filer volumes. On the first filer with the problem it seems to copy correctly on volumes that are cifs shared, but fail on volumes that are used by FC, at least I thought that was the difference. On the second filer there are no FC volumes, but somehow those copies are failing too. TSM support points at the filer people because the error is a bad return code from an operation that is handed off to the filer. I have been working with N-series hardware support on this for a month and only now realize that they have co concept of what the problem is. they thought backup stg produced an NDMP backup. Has any one else seen this problem? Does anyone on the list know how to get traction on these sorts of issues from Nseries hardware support ? Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia
Oracle VM
Is Oracle VM a supported environment for TSM clients? If so, could you point me to the appropriate supporting statement? David
Re: delete volume failure under TSM 5.5.6
Call TSM support and have them help you fix your TSM DB. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Davis, Jim J - (jjdavis) Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:26 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] delete volume failure under TSM 5.5.6 This is on a RHEL 5.7 x86_64 system; an old stgpool volume on external storage failed, so I marked it destroyed, and then tried to run del vol /the/volume/name discarddata=yes That fails with ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DELETE VOLUME /TSM_POOL/19/data19 discarddata=yes ANR0984I Process 1836 for DELETE VOLUME (DISCARD DATA) started in the BACKGROUND at 01:19:56 PM. ANRI Discard Data process started for volume /TSM_POOL/19/data19 (process ID 1836). ANRD_2990890315 PrepareClusters(dftxn.c:875) Thread22998: Logical occupancy went negative for Pool 25, Ck1=75, Ck2=1. ANRD Thread22998 issued message from: ANRD Thread22998 0xb95ba2 OutDiagToCons ANRD Thread22998 0xb986a9 outDiagfExt ANRD Thread22998 0x610e01 DfPrepareTxn ANRD Thread22998 0x5e05a1 bfPrepareTxn ANRD Thread22998 0xb682c1 CollectVotes ANRD Thread22998 0xb686b4 tmEnd ANRD Thread22998 0x4b220c AdmVolDelThread ANRD Thread22998 0xc01af4 StartThread ANRD Thread22998 0x39ba00677d *UNKNOWN* ANRD Thread22998 0x39b94d325d *UNKNOWN* ANR1181E dftxn.c(212): Data storage transaction 0:3.186769174 was aborted. Any ideas?
Re: Migration duration default?
help mig stg on TSM 6.2 on AIX says DUration Specifies the maximum number of minutes the migration will run before being automatically cancelled. When the specified number of minutes elapses, the server will automatically cancel all migration processes for this storage pool. As soon as the processes recognize the automatic cancellation, they will end. As a result, the migration may run longer than the value you specified for this parameter. You can specify a number from 1 to . This parameter is optional. If not specified, the server will stop only after the low migration more... (ENTER to continue, 'C' to cancel) threshold is reached. Don't know if it is different for linux or 6.1 but try issuing the help command. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 9:44 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Migration duration default? Linux Server - 6.1.5.100 Is there a default value for manual Migration, that I am not aware of? I never use the DUR value. Yesterday around 14:40, I started a manual migration (mig stg backuppool lo=0). This morning at 7:26am I see the message: ANR4925W Migration process 1727 terminated for storage pool BACKUPPOOL - duration exceeded. 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: Move NodeData
The stgpool parameter on Move Data is only valid for primary storage pool volumes. You cannot use the Move Data command to move copypool data from one storagepool to a different one. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of George Huebschman Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 2:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Move NodeData I think I have misunderstood how the command move nodedata works in regard to offsite media. I had believed that it functioned in the same way that reclamation and move data operations worked, utilizing onsite media to write new offsite media. This quote relates to the move data command: You can use this command to move files from an offsite volume in a copy storage pool or active-data pool. Because the offsite volume cannot be mounted, the server obtains the files that are on the offsite volume from either a primary storage pool, another copy storage pool, or another active-data pool. These files are then written to the destination volumes in the original copy storage pool or active-data pool. I see nothing like that in the description of the move nodedata command. It looks like I made a false assumption. Is that so? -- George Huebschman Cell 301 875-1227 When you have a choice, spend money where you would prefer to work if you had NO choice.
Re: Move NodeData
You CAN use Move Data on copy storagepools but only to move to other volumes in the SAME storagepool. You cannot Move Data copy storagepool data to a different storagepool. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of George Huebschman Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 10:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Move NodeData David, TSM says you can use it for copy pool data: 3.35.5 MOVE NODEDATA (Move data by node in a sequential access storage pool) Use this command to move data located in a sequential-access storage pool. You can move data for one or more nodes or for a group of collocated nodes. You can also move selected file spaces for a single node. The data can be located in a primary storage pool, a copy storage pool, or an active-data pool. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.eduwrote: The stgpool parameter on Move Data is only valid for primary storage pool volumes. You cannot use the Move Data command to move copypool data from one storagepool to a different one. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of George Huebschman Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 2:30 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Move NodeData I think I have misunderstood how the command move nodedata works in regard to offsite media. I had believed that it functioned in the same way that reclamation and move data operations worked, utilizing onsite media to write new offsite media. This quote relates to the move data command: You can use this command to move files from an offsite volume in a copy storage pool or active-data pool. Because the offsite volume cannot be mounted, the server obtains the files that are on the offsite volume from either a primary storage pool, another copy storage pool, or another active-data pool. These files are then written to the destination volumes in the original copy storage pool or active-data pool. I see nothing like that in the description of the move nodedata command. It looks like I made a false assumption. Is that so? -- George Huebschman Cell 301 875-1227 When you have a choice, spend money where you would prefer to work if you had NO choice. -- George Huebschman Cell 410 522-8581 When you have a choice, spend money where you would prefer to work if you had NO choice.
Re: Slow TSM DB Backup Update #3
So should lo_perf be set to 0 or to 1? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Kaufman Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 2:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Slow TSM DB Backup Update #3 For my environment (TSM 6.2.3 on Aix 7.1 TL1 SP3) this fix is to disable the lo_perf network option and reboot. no -p -o lo_perf and a reboot later I was back to speedy DB backups. Just did this last Friday... The tech I talked to said this problem affects Aix 6.1 TL7 and Aix 7.1 TL1. I did not have a problem when I was at Aix 7.1 TL0 SP4. Jonathan Kaufman From: Lamb, Charles P. cpl...@nppd.com To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Date: 03/20/2012 09:59 AM Subject: Slow TSM DB Backup Update #3 Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Hi... IBM has a fix for slow TSM DB Backups. It is called loopback TCP address problem referenced to PMR #54435,379,000. TSM DB backups will run as fast as before you performed the AIX V6.1.7.x/V7.1.x.x O/S upgrade. Visit us on-line at footlocker.com. The information in this e-mail, and any attachment therein, is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please return the e-mail to the sender and delete it from your computer. Although the Company attempts to sweep e-mail and attachments for viruses, it does not guarantee that either are virus-free and accepts no liability for any damage sustained as a result of viruses.
