3584 LTO2 Manual operation
Hi fellow 'smers. My 3584 library chewed its gripper arms this weekend and now the gripper is fully UNoperaitional. My diskpools are now full and I would really like to migrate some data to the tapes. The drives are aok, and I would like to know if it is possible to convert the library to a manual type so I can mount the tapes by hand? Regrads Emil S. Hansen
Re: Defining TSM Disk pools on ESS wisdom wanted
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 08:37:31PM -0500, Seay, Paul wrote: So, using 24GB volumes is probably the best way to go. Also, JFS formatted volumes is the way to go. Why would you prefer JFS volumes? I use raw and find it a bit better since the VM want cache anything. Ever tried maxpgahead? That is why you want JFS. Causes things to fly. Yes, but I find that TSMs bufferpool is alot better at managing the cache than AIXs VM. If we are talking about storagepools, I don't see the big benefit of maxpgahead since most data will only be read once and most reads will be big and sequitial AND will come as fast as the drive(s) can deliver them. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: Copy job freezed
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:34:12PM +0200, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote: For big storage pools that can take quite some time, and especially if running at the same time as expiration or other DB heavy activity. In my case, the storage pool size is approximatively 1,4 TB, would it make sense for you, that this computational phase lasts 3 hours on a 6h0 system, having 2 cpu and 2 GB RAM ? I find it really looong ! 3 hours is a lot! My F50 usally takes 1-10 mins to run thru a storage pool of the same size. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: Copy job freezed
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:07:46PM +0200, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote: Could anybody explain me why I consistently see backup stg jobs freezing ? What happens is that the job begins, but thereafter hangs for a while, doing nothing at all, and suddenly starts copying data on tape. I saw this behavior on severall flavors of TSM (actually on 4.2.3.1), without finding any good reason for it. Tape drives are available, other copy jobs for other pools are starting o.k., and this happens randomly on all storage pools. Mine does the same, and it is not a drive problem, it is simply becuase TSM has to scan all objects in the storagepool being backed up, to see if they have been backed up or a copy should be made. For big storage pools that can take quite some time, and especially if running at the same time as expiration or other DB heavy activity. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: Defining TSM Disk pools on ESS wisdom wanted
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 10:25:15AM +0100, Daniel Sparrman wrote: So, using 24GB volumes is probably the best way to go. Also, JFS formatted volumes is the way to go. Why would you prefer JFS volumes? I use raw and find it a bit better since the VM want cache anything. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
TDP for Domino
Hi list. I'm in the procsess of implementing TDP for Domino. I have sucesfully installed the Client and TDP, and configured TDP and schedules. When I try to run a restore from the graphical interface all my \Mail\*.nsf dbs are listed with Logging=No, and I just don't understand why. Transaction logging is enabled on the Domino server, and archive logs is running twice daily. Transaction logging isn't disabled for any of the dbs, but TDP still reports them as Logging=No. Does any one have an idea to what might be wrong? -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: TDP for Domino
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:30:20AM -0500, Del Hoobler wrote: On your Domino Server, issue the following Domino Server comand: SHOW DIR Example output looks like this: show dir DbNameVersion Logged ---Modified Time D:\Lotus\DominoR5\Data\mail.boxV5 Yes 09/03/2002 11:00:17 AM D:\Lotus\DominoR5\Data\webadmin.ntfV4 No10/11/2002 05:01:13 AM D:\Lotus\DominoR5\Data\userreg.ntf V4 No10/11/2002 05:01:13 AM Mine says: N/A under logged for all my DBs? I realize this is more of a Domino question than a TSM question This will show you if the database is logged or not, according to the Domino Server. If it shows the databases as logged, then could it be possible that when you took the backups you are trying to restore, the databases were not logged? I don't think my DBs are logged at all, do you happen to know the Domino command enable DB logging for a DB? If you are still having problems, please call IBM support. Hehe, my server is at 4.1.5, so I don't think it'll do me any good ;-). -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: TDP for Domino
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 02:59:31PM +0100, Emil S. Hansen wrote: I don't think my DBs are logged at all, do you happen to know the Domino command enable DB logging for a DB? If you are still having problems, please call IBM support. Hehe, my server is at 4.1.5, so I don't think it'll do me any good ;-). My problem was solved with a reboot of the Domino server. Thank you for you help Del. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Tivoli Protection for Mail, Domino edition
Hello list. My TSM server is version 4.1.5 running on AIX. I know it isn't supported, but it is danm stable. Now I want to install TSM for Mail, Notes Edittion which I think is the old TDP for Domino v. 1.1.2. Does any one know if it is possible to run it with my old server? My plan is to install the 5.1.5 client and then the TDP client. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: Semote storage pool
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:22:35AM -0600, Stapleton, Mark wrote: Why would you want to do this? Disk (particularly local disk) is cheap these days. The lag resultant from Windows drive mappings or (shudder!) NFS mounts will greatly slow your throughput. Offsite storage? -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: Semote storage pool
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:46:05PM -0500, Remeta, Mark wrote: It doesn't matter how you use it. Forcing TSM to work its I/O at network speeds when it is designed to work at bus speeds will show badly. You'll be disappointed. I agree.. besides that's what off-site copy pools are for! I have a 1 Gbit link between my primary site and my backup site, and I'm actully consindering using a Linux box with a lot of disk space NFS mounted on my TSM server as copypool, just to scratch the complexity of offsite tape managment. I don't see the big difference between network speed and bus speed when I'm running Gbit network, can you elaborate? -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: job opportunity!
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 04:50:08PM -0800, Chetan H. Ravnikar wrote: We are looking for 2 X Strong Senior TSM admins with Solaris sysadmin background, pls write to me directly. We are based in Mt View, CA Do you hire foreigners? I'm from Denmark, but could move to the U.S. with very short notice. I am an UNIX (AIX and Solaris) administrator at Denmarks second biggest newspaper and have 2 years experince with TSM. If you find me interesting, please write me and I will send you my CV. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: job opportunity!
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:36:59AM +0100, Emil S. Hansen wrote: SNIP Danm, I just wish this was usenet so I could cancel that message sorry guys. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: 3494 Manual mode
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 08:19:29AM -0800, Cook, Dwight E wrote: Uh not reported as in the library by who ? TSM or the Library Manager ??? TSM wouldn't see the tapes. A databse search for volumes on the Library Manager showed the tapes. So in manual mode, once a tape is requested, mounted, dismounted... IF it is required again, the drive will show the tapes original location with a ? to let you know it might be ~on top of a frame somewhere~ (that's where I pile them anyway). Now I always got into arguments with CE's because when we would go back to auto mode, I'd always put the tapes back into their expected cells BUT the CE would say I had to check them in through the I/O station. For a while the library microcode would look at these inserted tapes as ~duplicate volsers~ and hose me up because when the library needed the volume it would go look in the initial location, wouldn't find the tape, report it as lost, and require a full re-inventory BUT that was all some 4-5 years ago. I believe anymore with the library microcode available about 2 years ago (last time we upgraded any) it doesn't matter if you put them back yourself prior to going auto again OR just going auto and sticking them in the I/O station. Might have your CE check the code level on your internal PC and upgrade... Hmm, we upgraded the PC microcode about 8 months ago. Did you happen to catch what category was reported for those volumes (manually mounted) ? Nope, but a 'mtlib -l/dev/lmcp0 -qI|grep XX' showed this: D00172 012C 02 10 01 (As far as i remember). Notice this ^ -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
3494 Manual mode
Hello TSMers. After a breakdown of the accessor in our 3494 I had to put it in manual mode while the CE was working on it. After the CE had done his job, I put the 3494 back into Auto mode. But my TSM server couldn't mount any of the volumes which I had touched in manual mode. All the volumes was reported as not being in the library. I had to use mtlib to eject them and the put them back in the library. Does any one know the reason why? On a side note I can tell you what was wrong with the 3494. We are rebuilding our machineroom with out taking it offline, and some of the work dust had jamed the vertical movement of the accessor, a good cleaning and some grease helped it get going again. It took the CE 7 spareparts and 5 hours to figure that one out :). -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA Gravity can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein
Re: Computer Associates - Brightstore Resource Manager for TSM
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:13:38PM -0600, Mark Stapleton wrote: Example of dumb programming: the marketing rep will neglect to tell you that CA UniCenter (their network and system management piece) uses UDP packets, instead of TCP. What does that mean? It means that there has to be a UniCenter server install for every segment of your network, because UDP packets can't be sent through a router. UDP packets can be routed just as well as TCP packets, so that statement is FUD and NOT true. But CA UniCenter is still an unbeliveable inferior product none the less. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA
Re: a new atl (for xmas ...)
See my reply inline. On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 10:09:25AM -0400, Thierry ITTY wrote: we have an automated tape library, something custom (a GRAU/ABBA-J with ibm 3590e drives and ca 1000 cartridges), we backup/archieve ca 80 GB every day from our servers and workstations over our lan we evaluate our needs in the next 3 years to 150/200GB per day, maybe more depending on HSM's use for various reasons we can't/won't go on with this ATL, but we want to keep tsm our questions : - what kind of ATL would you suggest in our case ? which are to avoid ? - should we keep our 3590 drives or try a new media ? which ? - do you know of reviews, surveys, papers about ATLs comparisons ? I backup 200-400 GBs a day to 600 GB diskpool and then onto five 3590 E1A drives in a 3494 with 3 frames (808 cells), and I'm very happy with both the 3590 drives and the 3494 library. I guess I could backup double the amount of data that I do today without any problems. I would recommend sticking with your 3590 drives, maybe upgrading them to 3590 H1A (60 GB uncompressed on a 3590 K cartridge). -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA
Re: bad tapes
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:11:39PM -0500, Alexander Lazarevich wrote: 1) is there any scenareo where a tape is still good, yet the server sets it to READ ONLY? If you have a hardware failure on one of your drives it can mark all tapes that is mounted in it as READONLY. Happend to me once or twice with some of our 3590E drives. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA msg30685/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Withdrawal of 3570 Magstar
See my reply below. On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:50:24PM +, Dan Foster wrote: Client sends data to TSM server As long as client data is 10MB, streams to disk pool Soon as client sends a 11 MB or 500 MB file, then... TSM fetches a tape, mounts it (55 sec wait) TSM starts writing file to tape Once done, TSM dismounts the tape (!) Client continues sending data If it hits another 10MB file, the whole mount-write-dismount process repeats. This results in a significant performance hit from all the mounts/dismounts. To alleviate this, I've set the node's KEEPMP option to YES, so it ends up mounting the tape once on first access, then keeps it mounted throughout the entire client run so that we get no more subsequent 55 sec mount delays. When does it dismount the tape? After the tape retention in drive period expires, but usually the next client session grabs the same tape if it's got free space. How about setting the mount retention for the devclass to something like 10 to 30 mins? That will keep the tape mounted for at least 10 mins after the last access, so that if the tape is needed by the client it will likely still be mounted. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA tjaa men ville disse lister ikke være kedelige hvis vi altid gav hinanden ret med det samme :o) - Kim Schulz på SSLUG.PROG msg30468/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Future plans for encryption in TSM
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:49:07AM -0400, Jelinek, David G. wrote: Has anyone heard if there are any plans to increase the encryption strength from 56 bit DES to at least 1024 bit? We have requirements because of the HIPAA (Health Information Portability and Accountability Act) stuff. Thanks in advance. 1024 bit symetric encryption? You guys must be crasy or talking about asymetric encryption which is another ball game (read: Oranges and apples). -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA tjaa men ville disse lister ikke være kedelige hvis vi altid gav hinanden ret med det samme :o) - Kim Schulz på SSLUG.PROG msg30066/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Deleting a backup copygroup
Hello. I have a backup copygroup that I wish to delete. What will happen to the files that are bound to this copygroup once I delete the copygroup? Most of the files are directories that are bound to this copygroup because the copygroup has RETONLY=NOLIMIT. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA tjaa men ville disse lister ikke vfre kedelige hvis vi altid gav hinanden ret med det samme :o) - Kim Schulz pe SSLUG.PROG
Re: IBM vs. Storage Tek
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:29:48AM -0400, Joni Moyer wrote: 3590 9840 9940A LTO 10 GB 20 GB 60 GB 100 GB Production Onsite1375 689 231 140 Offsite 1600 800 268 161 Total 2975 1489 499 301 Test Onsite963 483 163 101 Offsite 1324 664 223 135 Total 2287 1147 386 236 Grand Total 5262 2636 885 537 3590-E1A with extended lenght tapes holds 40 GB on each tape. That will give you Production Onsite 344 Offsite 400 Total 744 Test Onsite 241 Offsite 332 Total 573 Grand Onsite 585 Offsite 732 Total 1317 -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA tjaa men ville disse lister ikke være kedelige hvis vi altid gav hinanden ret med det samme :o) - Kim Schulz på SSLUG.PROG msg28810/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Archive Question
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 12:55:30PM -0400, Lawson, Jerry W (ETSD, IT) wrote: Dsmc archive -archmc=60days -deletefiles /opt/file/directory/seven/layers/deep/log.* There are 2 files to be archived that match the log.* criteria each night. The first strange thing that I see is that the archive process, even with one command, runs twice - one for each log file, and it archives the file Try using Dsmc archive -archmc=60days -deletefiles '/opt/file/directory/seven/layers/deep/log.*' (Notice the quotes). Your shell is proberly expanding /opt/file/directory/seven/layers/deep/log.* for you. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA tjaa men ville disse lister ikke være kedelige hvis vi altid gav hinanden ret med det samme :o) - Kim Schulz på SSLUG.PROG msg27130/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Getting total amount of active versions.
Hello *SMers. Is there a SELECT statement that can show me the (total) size of all active files? I have SELECT SUM(LOGICAL_MB) AS Data_In_MB, SUM(NUM_FILES) \ AS Num_of_files FROM OCCUPANCY for showing the total size of all files, but how about the size of active files only? It will give me an idea about how much I will need to restore in a disaster. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA tjaa men ville disse lister ikke være kedelige hvis vi altid gav hinanden ret med det samme :o) - Kim Schulz på SSLUG.PROG msg26667/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Getting total amount of active versions.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:33:14AM -0400, Prather, Wanda wrote: Is there a SELECT statement that can show me the (total) size of all active files? If any of your clients are doing compression, the values you get from OCCUPANCY are irrelevant. There is no place in TSM to query the original file size. All of our clients use compression, but I don't care how much the files are when they are on the client, I just care how much data I have to lift of tape and send over the network. I guess OCCUPANCY is giving me okay numbers, but from a short look at the table it looks like I have to use some other tables, but which? -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA tjaa men ville disse lister ikke være kedelige hvis vi altid gav hinanden ret med det samme :o) - Kim Schulz på SSLUG.PROG msg26740/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Compression
Thanks for the responses, but I have a follow up question. Perhaps, a more fundamental question is, how can I determine if compression is enabled on the 3494? Or, is it ON by default? It depends on the platform. The system details are as follows: IBM pSeries 6M1 AIX 4.3.3.09+patches TSM 5.1.0.2 Drives are FC attached 3590E1A. '/usr/sbin/lsattr -E -l rmtX' should show you the current setting for the drive and 'chdev -l rmtX compress=no' should turn compression off. -- Best Regards Emil S. Hansen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ESH14-DK UNIX Administrator, Berlingske IT - www.bit.dk PGP: 109375FA/ABEB 1EFA A764 529E 82B5 0943 AD3B 1FC2 1093 75FA tjaa men ville disse lister ikke vfre kedelige hvis vi altid gav hinanden ret med det samme :o) - Kim Schulz pe SSLUG.PROG
