Re: Remove unwanted files
The next backup will delete all versions from TSM. -- Phillip (901)320-4462 (901)320-4856 FAX (901)652-6337 Cell (901)384-6337 Home -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 04:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ADSM-L] Remove unwanted files Hello, I am asked to exclude backing these filespace, but because they were already backed up previously, is there a way to remove them off TSM to save some space? Thank you. e:\data\*.dbf e:\index\*.dbf e:\system\*.dbf d:\undo_temp\*.dbf Avy Wong Business Continuity Administrator Mohegan Sun 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd Uncasville, CT 06382 (860) 862-8164 cell (860) 961-6976 ** The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. ** * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Best Practices DISK for DB, LOG, and STGPOOL JigSaw Puzzle
This has been discussed before. If TSM mirroring and the error is a tsm error like the application failed, then only the tsm mirror that was being written to is corrupted. When the application comes back up it can detect and handle this. If it was hardware mirror only then the error will be written to all the disks and the application cannot recover from this due to the corrupted data is written to all disks by the hardware. -- Phillip (901)320-4462 (901)320-4856 FAX -Original Message- From: Bernaldo de Quiros, Iban 1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:52 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Best Practices DISK for DB, LOG, and STGPOOL JigSaw Puzzle Hi all, Why to use TSM Mirror function for DB and RLOG if this can be supplied by Hardware RAID ¿? Using TSM mirror as far as I know could improve server performance... But is it recommended to have the two phylosophies HW RAID and TSM mirror ¿? Or only one of them... Pro's/Con's or preferences for HW RAID or TSM mirror ¿? Regards, Iban Bernaldo De Quiros Y Marquez Technical Specialist Sun Microsystems, Inc. Serrano Galvache, 56 Madrid 28033 ES Phone +34 91 767 6233 Mobile + 34 659 01 91 12 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mensaje original- De: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] En nombre de Richard Sims Enviado el: jueves, 14 de septiembre de 2006 17:21 Para: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Asunto: Re: [ADSM-L] Best Practices DISK for DB, LOG, and STGPOOL JigSaw Puzzle On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:59 AM, Bernaldo de Quiros, Iban 1 wrote: Hi Richard, There's a lot of great stuff here and good advices !! But I have two last questions... 1-Will you share the same physical disk with database and storage pool ¿? Never mix conflicting access-pattern subsystems in storage areas - that can be as bad as tape and disk on the same I/O path. It is essential that your database be as high-performance as possible, so keep it separate. 2-Will you spread database volumes over the same physical disk or over different physical disks ¿? Or will you make both ¿? In a non-RAID environment, I would spread over physical disks, to the extent reasonable. If very large disks, you may want a few partitions on the disk; but then try to use 15,000 rpm disks. But I prefer using raw logical volumes and hardware RAID 1+0 (striping and mirroring) for best performance. And beyond that there are sophisticated disk subsystems out there which offer further opportunities. Remember that TSM uses one thread per disk volume, so you gain by having a reasonable number of volumes. Look back in the List archives for information posted from the hard- won experiences of other contributors, as there's lots of good advice in our collective efforts. Richard Sims * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Lots of newbie questions
We have a script and it does a move data on any tape (primary or copy) that is older then (not read or written in) x days. We are currently using 6 months as our x. This makes sure that offsite tapes do not sit for 7 years also. -- Phillip (901)320-4462 (901)320-4856 FAX -Original Message- From: Allen S. Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:20 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Lots of newbie questions On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:34:49 -0500, Troy Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Where would you draw the line with this? For monthly snapshots, you're saying it works better than archives/backupsets. Would you also extend this to replacing yearly archives that need to be around 7 years? I don't see why not, but I've not spent as much time mulling it over as you probably have. Yes; in fact we're setting about doing just such a thing. In this environment, I expect a (to us) totally alien concern to be the most important: Tape reliability. You wrote EOT of tape number one; You will now not touch that tape for seven years, or it's copy volumes. How do you assure yourself that the data is legible? For live data, we usually have churn in our tape pools; expiration and reclamation usually cycle through the entire corpus of tapes in a reasonable timeframe. Long-term storage of static data blows that model. Once framed that way the solution is obvious: when possible, take the oldest tape you've got and MOVE DATA on it. If you can do this a few times a month, You will sharply curtail the possibility of a write-only volume. - Allen S. Rout * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Audit restore storage volume tape
You can do a move volume and it should move all the good files. You may have to do this a couple of times. This should get all the good files off the tape. Now try the restore. If that wont work then the only thing is delete the volume with discard=yes and you have lost data. If it is current data on the system the next backup will pick it up. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Enterprise Computing Services Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Audit restore storage volume tape Hello, We were receiving the message below on a tape volume file in our primary storage pool during reclamation on 101645 processing causing it to fail. I performed a Audit Volume 101645 fix=yes on the volume in question. ANR1330E The server has detected possible corruption in an object being restored or moved. The actual values for the incorrect frame are: magic 53454652 hdr version 0002 hdr length 0032 sequence number 0061 data length server id segment id 60002793965424476 48 crc 003D.(PROCESS: 187) ANR1331E Invalid frame detected. Expected magic 53454652 sequence number 0061 server id segment id 08602819.(PROCESS The following message is now reoccurring during reclamation on the same tape volume (101645) in our primary sequential pool and causing reclamation to fail. This started to occur after I performed a Audit Volume 101645 Fix=Yes on a tape. ANR1162W Space reclamation skipping damaged file on volume 100646: Node XX200, Type Backup, File space /u14, File name /oradat/archive/TSIC/ TSIC_1_88894_525973123.arc. ANR0985I Process 193 for SPACE RECLAMATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at Reclamation of storage pool LPOOL has ended. Files reclaimed 0, Bytes reclaimed: 0, Files reconstructed: 0, Unreadable files: 0. Question 1 - If I do a Restore Storage Pool volume for that tape and it will restore the damaged file (s) from the copy pool only. Is there any way to keep this volume from being marked destroyed since it's only the one file that is damaged automatically by TSM? Since there is only 1 file that is the problem. Question 2 - If the file on the copy pool volume is damaged also and causes the same message above after I do a Audit volume ## fix=? how do I get rid of the ANR1162W message that is appears for that ONE file which causes reclamation to fail? TSM 5.3.2 Thanks in Advance! * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: AW: Throttling back TSM client
First time I heard that rule was in a Robert Heinlein book call The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. They even had an acronym for it TANSTAAFL there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. -- Phillip (901)320-4462 (901)320-4856 FAX -Original Message- From: Salak Juraj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 5:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] AW: Throttling back TSM client :-) is full list of Raibeck´s Rule available? Sound like new Murphy! best Juraj -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Andrew Raibeck Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. April 2006 22:57 An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Betreff: Re: Throttling back TSM client Seems that every action has some re-action. Sounds like Raibeck's Rule #37: There is no free lunch :-) Regard, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTi voliStorageManager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 2006-04-25 13:40:27: Thanks Richard, et al, I thought the default RESOURCEUTIL was also the minimal value, so I don't think we could lower that any more than it already is. Using MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP is a good idea, as is using 'nice' to deprioritize. We have actually been working hard to improve TSM performance so that we can restore data more quickly. Seems that every action has some re-action. Reducing the TSM Server as a bottleneck serves to move the bottleneck to the client, where it can interfere with other applications. ..Paul At 02:37 PM 4/25/2006, Richard Sims wrote: Certainly, de-tuning the TSM backups will reduce the impact, where the most obvious tactic is to minimize RESOURceutilization. And you can get more drastic via MEMORYEFficientbackup Yes. Depending upon the file population, the influx of the Active files list at the beginning of an incremental will always have a fixed impact. Beyond that, you can deprioritize the TSM client process at the OS level. -- Paul ZarnowskiPh: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Systems Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: DSM.OPT file
We use two card or one. We have both TSM names in the DNS tsm_primary and tsm_backup. We then use the name we want to use in the dsm.opt file. The backup is a private network we use just for backups. We do not route to or from this network. Thus we can be sure that a server is not going out the primary and then across a bridge or router to the backup network. If it wants to go out the primary looking for tsm_backup then it will fail and we can look at the routing tables to find out what to fix. If the system only has a primary connection then we use tsm_primary in its dsm.opt. This has worked great for us. When we move tsm to a newer machine we get it working and then just change the dns names and that night everybody goes to the new server. -- Phillip (901)320-4462 (901)320-4856 FAX -Original Message- From: Tyree, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 2:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] DSM.OPT file I've got a question about the usage of the TCPSERVERADDRESS line in the dsm.opt file on the clients. Currently I have the IP address of the TSM server listed in the dsm.opt file on the clients. We will be implementing a new addressing scheme for all of our servers in a couple of months and that includes the TSM server itself. In our case the DNS name of the server happens to match the name of the TSM server instance. Since our TSM server only has one NIC and thus only one IP address I went ahead and changed the line to show the DNS name of the TSM server instead of the IP on a few of the clients. The DNS name of the TSM server will not be changing, only the IP address. I wasn't sure at the time if the TSM client would work with the DNS name instead but I since found in the TSM docs it would. And found that it actually did work just fine. The next issue is that we are thinking about adding another NIC in the TSM at some point in the future to help split the load on the network. At that point the TSM server will then have two IP's. Any clients that I want to have come into the TSM server on the second NIC would have to have the IP of the second NIC in its dsm.opt file. That part makes complete sense. But what about any clients that I have with the DNS name of the TSM server in the dsm.opt file instead of the IP address? Which NIC would they connect to? If I absolutely wanted to ensure that the clients came into the TSM server on the right NIC I would make sure I had the right IP listed in that clients options file. But what would happen if I left the DNS entry in the options file? David Tyree Enterprise Backup Administrator South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: DB LOG Volume layout - new
I believe there is still a reason to mirror at the TSM level. If you mirror at the hardware level only and TSM writes a corrupt entry to the DB or log, you are hosed since the hardware mirror will write it to both copies. If TSM is doing the mirror, it can see that it had a problem writing to one copy and not write the corrupt data to the second copy. TSM can then use the good copy to fix the corrupt mirror. Now I do not know how or when this case can come up but that is the reason I was told to mirror at the TSM level. We use EMC for the storage. All our EMC storage is mirrored or raided. We then also mirror at the TSM level. This is over kill but we do not have any unprotected disks to use so we double do it. Have not had a problem but we may be wasting disks. -- Phillip 320-4462 -Original Message- From: David Longo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] DB LOG Volume layout - new I've just done a reconfig of my DB and LOG volumes that flies in the face of conventional wisdom - but it works! First, the essential parts of my environment: TSM Server 5.2.6.0 on AIX 5.2. Disk is an IBM FASTT 600 Turbo with the main drawer and (3) EXP-710 drawers (switched disk drawers). All 4 drawers are filled with (14) 73GB 15K FC drives. I have all Disk pools on here. RAID arrays are built with ONE disk from each drawer (max redundancy). I had moved from older disk system to this one about 9 months ago. For layout of DB and LOG at that time I had used standard method, layout out over many disks. So, I had about 8 GB LOG and 80GB DB at that time. I used RAID 0, one disk for each. So had 2 disks for log, one main and one mirrored. I used 8 disks for DB, 4 primary and 4 mirror. On the FAST Array, I carved out 10GB LUNS. At AIX level these 10GB LUNS were separate disks and I setup simple jfs filesystems on them. All mirroring was done at TSM level. I then at TSM level defined 1GB LOG vols and mirrored. I defined 5GB DB vols, two per filesystem and therefore had 16 DB vols and then 16 mirrors. (Also I have about 400 clients of all types and backup about 1.5 TB per day.) WHAT I CHANGED (and why): My 80 GB DB had crept up to 83% utilized on me. We had a slightly flaky disk on the FASTT that was one of my LOG disks. I had realized from the start that if one of these disks went, would take AIX and TSM work to rebuild. As this entire system was working well for me, I wanted to eliminate that problem in case of disk failure and also conserve disk space. So I created a 10GB LUN in extra space on one Disk pools Raid 5 Array and mirrored my LOG over to it and deleted the old volumes at TSM level. I noticed no problem running this way! My 8 GB log normally only hits 10% max, with occasional hits or 25-50% with client problems, and I also knew that log activity is not heavy I/O. So with this down, I created a RAID 5 array across 4 FASTT disks. Then for apples to apples comparison, I created 10 GB LUNS on FASTT like current DB uses. And created on AIX the same way also. I then at TSM level defined, mirrored over to the new DB vols and deleted all old mirrors to RAID 0 disks for half my DB. Ran 24 hours with no problem. Then I moved the rest of the DB over the next day. I then ran about a week with this and had no problems. Backups ran normal and easiest to measure is FULL DB Backup and Expiration. No increase in time! I then in same fashion increased my DB from 80GB to 100GB to get utilization down to 67%. That is, used same RAID 5 array and same LUN and DB vol size. I still get no increase in time for DB backup (well one minute now!) and expiration. No noticeable change in backups either. CONCLUSION? So, I have saved disks and made disk failure transparent, our guy that handles replacements can do this in minutes and I don't have to get involved. Maybe old philosophy has been overcome by newer/faster disks and disk systems? I now have no TSM mirror for LOG or DB. Old philosophy was that TSM mirror had some slight extra protection for TSM. Wonder if this is still true or not these days? Would basically have to use more disks for this and am on RAID 5 for both now. Comments anyone? David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax:321.434.5509 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the
Re: Reclamation
I have noticed this. I did not know if it started with the 70% as you said but I know that it does not start with the 99.9%. We have been having trouble getting reclaim to finish. Since it starts with the 70% and does not finish, over time we have a lot of tapes offsite which are 99% reclaimable. And I do mean a lot. I have actually created a process that does a move data on these to try and get them reclaimed. Our version of the server is old and we are in the process of upgrading to 5 something and I was hoping that that was going to fix the problem. Well I guess not. It has been a real problem for me. -- Phillip 320-4462 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Meadows, Andrew Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:50 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Reclamation I was wondering if anyone else has noticed this same issue and if there is anything that I can do for it. I am running on version 5.3.1.6 on AIX 5.1. Storage pools in question are LTO gen 1 Scenario: Copypoola has 50 volumes that are over 70% reclaimable with the percentages ranging from 70% to 99.9% reclaimable. If I start reclamation for copypoola with rec=70 (upd stg copypoola rec=70) it will start with the volumes that are 70% reclaimable and work its way up. This doesn't make sense to me wouldn't you start with the 99.9% reclaimable volumes first? If I do this for my onsite pools it starts the logical way with 99.9% and works its way down. Has anyone else noticed this and is there something I am doing wrong here or is this just the way it is. This message is intended only for the use of the Addressee and may contain information that is PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately. Thank you. * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Moving a node from one domain to another
I think Wanda is correct except I though that if a management class does not exist in the new domain then files in that management class will bind to the default class in the new domain. This is what I remember but you can not trust my memory. What was I talking about.. -- Phillip 320-4462 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Moving a node from one domain to another If the new domain has the same management classes as the old domain, all you do is : update node blah domain=newname. If the old domain has no management classes other than DEFAULT, that's also no problem. If the new domain does NOT have the same management classes as the old domain, think hard about what you want to happen. If TSm can't map a file to a management class in a new domain, it will use the grace period, I think, to control versions. If the new domain/management class points the files to a new storage pool nothing at all happens. Changing domains does NOT cause the movement of any data. If you want to relocate the data, use MOVE NODEDATA after you change the domain. Hope that helps. Wanda Prather I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O -(me) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Melburn W IT743 Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 11:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Moving a node from one domain to another Is there a safe way to move one node (and all the corresponding archive and backup data) from one policy domain to another? Mel Dennis * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Re Unmounted file systems
I can not speak for Solaris but for HP-UX and AIX, the last known state of that file system is kept until remounted or manually deleted. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Enterprise Computing Services Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Farren Minns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 9:07 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re Unmounted file systems Hi all Here's a question for you. If you unmount a file system on a client (in this case we are talking Solaris), and then perform the usual incremental backup, does TSM see at the unmounted file system as deleted files? Or will the last known state of that file system be kept in backup unless manually deleted? Thanks in advance Farren Minns Solaris System Admin / Oracle DBA IT - Hosting Services John Wiley Sons, Ltd. ## The information contained in this e-mail and any subsequent correspondence is private and confidential and intended solely for the named recipient(s). If you are not a named recipient, you must not copy, distribute, or disseminate the information, open any attachment, or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received the e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete the e-mail. Any views or opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the individual sender, unless otherwise stated. Although this e-mail has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check, as the sender accepts no liability for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. ## * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: delete offsite volume - did not go to a pending status
Try an audit volume on it and see what happens. This usually takes care of it. Sometimes you have to run the delete volume a couple of times. -- Phillip 320-4462 -Original Message- From: T. Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:58 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: delete offsite volume - did not go to a pending status Hey all - I've been doing a little cleanup of some offsite tapes - long story - but bascially I'm doing some delete volume volid discard=yes. Ran one today on a tape, and for some reason the tape did not go to a pending status. It's still at a full status. I did get all the other messages about it being empty and all that good stuff - just no pending status. The tape IS empty, and I got an error when I tried delete volume on it again. Any ideas? Tracy - 07/28/05 13:20:04 ANR0984I Process 1197 for DELETE VOLUME (DISCARD DATA) started in the BACKGROUND at 13:20:04. (SESSION: 14425, PROCESS: 1197) 07/28/05 13:20:04 ANRI Discard Data process started for volume 006273 (process ID 1197). (SESSION: 14425, PROCESS: 1197) 07/28/05 13:20:08 ANR1423W Scratch volume 006273 is empty but will not be deleted - volume access mode is offsite. (SESSION: 14425, PROCESS: 1197)07/28/05 13:20:08 ANR0986I Process 1197 for DELETE VOLUME (DISCARD DATA) running in the BACKGROUND processed 2435 items for a total of 53,160,269,554 bytes with a completion state of SUCCESS at 13:20:08. (SESSION: 14425, PROCESS: 1197) tsm: TSM1q vol 006273 f=d Volume Name: 006273 Storage Pool Name: COPYPOOL2 Device Class Name: LTO Estimated Capacity (MB): 158,647.4 Scaled Capacity Applied: Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Full Access: Offsite Pct. Reclaimable Space: 100.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 1 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 07/20/04 16:00:16 Approx. Date Last Read: 07/20/04 13:20:20 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: VAULT Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No tsm: TSM1q content 006273 ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11. 2nd attempt at delete volume: tsm: TSM1del vol 006273 discard=yes ANR2221W This command will result in the deletion of all inventory references to the data on volume 006273, thereby rendering the data unrecoverable. Do you wish to proceed? (Yes (Y)/No (N)) y ANS8001I Return code 14. tsm: TSM1q drmedia 006273 Volume Name State Last Update Automated Date/TimeLibName --- - --- - 006273 Vault 07/21/04 18:00:01 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: [spam] Excluding Command Line verbiage
If you are below that version we do it with a grip -v -e dsmadmc directive | grep -v -e Highest -e Tivoli -e Command -e Copyright -e Session -e Server The above is from one of my scripts. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Enterprise Computing Services Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: David McClelland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 8:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [spam] Excluding Command Line verbiage Dave, With the '-dataonly=yes' directive - eg. dsmadmc -dataonly=yes -id=id -passw=passw q proc If I recall, you'll need to be at client level 5.2 or above for this to work. David McClelland Shared Infrastructure Development Reuters 85 Fleet Street London EC4P 4AJ -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Zarnoch Sent: 11 May 2005 14:21 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [spam] Excluding Command Line verbiage Folks, Sorry if this is a FAQ.. How do I exclude the Command Line Administrative Interface verbiage when I run a command? Thanks! DaveZ - Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com To find out more about Reuters Products and Services visit http://www.reuters.com/productinfo Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd. * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Restoring data after deleting a volume
Don't delete it. That will get rid of the copy as well. You need to do a restore volume. Do a help on that. I usually do a preview and find out what tapes I need from the vault first. I mark all the tapes as unavailable so that TSM will not use them. When I get them all in the library I change them to readonly and then do the restore. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Enterprise Computing Services Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mike Bantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restoring data after deleting a volume So I've got a volume that got all sorts of messed up somehow, one that resides in my tapepool. I've tried moving the data from it with no luck - too many errors. Since I should have a copy of this in the copy pool, I should be all set. So I'm going to delete the volume with discarddata=yes and make sure I've got the data from the copypool mirrored back onto the tapepool (onto a new tape somewhere). Question is, how do I do that? As in syntax? I can't just be restore vol 00035-L1 or something that simple, right? Thanks in advance... Mike Bantz Systems Administrator Research Systems, Inc * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Strange Policy Domain Question
Do you have a directory statement. I don't remember the exact wordage but DSMC or something like that in the .sys file. If not then what you are probably seeing is directories being rebound to the new class. If there is not a DSMC command then directories bind to the class with the largest retension. Could this be what is happening? -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Farren Minns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Strange Policy Domain Question Hi All Running TSM 5.1.6.2 on Solaris 2.7 I have been trying to add a new management class to just one dir and all sub-dir's on one of our Solaris clients. I have been doing this with the following steps :- 1) Create a new management class called RETDEL750 under the STANDARD policy domain. The STANDARD backup copy group under the new man class looks as follows :- Policy Domain Name STANDARD Policy Set Name STANDARD Mgmt Class Name RETDEL751 Copy Group Name STANDARD Versions Data Exists 3 Versions Data Deleted 1 Retain Extra Versions 180 Retain Only Version 750 Ok, so I'm happy that this means keep files deleted from the client backed up for 750 days. 2) Now, I validate and then activate the STANDARD policy set. This works fine. 3) Assign the new management class to the required dir with an include statement. As follows :- include /app/production/.../* retdel750 Now, the problem I have is that the backup for the following night shows some strange behaviour for all clients using the STANDARD policy domain in that all clients see a lot of files being rebound. But I would expect to only see rebound files for the client and dir with the include statement. Is this a bug, or am I missing something here (or just being stupid and doing something wrong)? Many thanks in advance Farren Minns - John Wiley Sons Ltd * This email transmission is confidential and intended for the person or organisation it is addressed to. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute, or disseminate the information, open any attachment, or take any action in reliance of it. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states otherwise. Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check, as the sender takes no responsibility for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. * * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Copypool Reclamation
Copytape reclamation generally uses copytapes if they are in the library and not offsite. If they are offsite then reclaim uses the primary tapes. I have seen your problem if the primary tape is marked unavailable for some reason or is taken out of the library. It can also fail if the primary tape has a corrupted file that can not be used. I set reclaim to 45. If I can take two tape and write one then I gain a scratch. Generally we are tight on the number of scratches. I have gone lower but we just end up beating our selves to death. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Copypool Reclamation How does Copypool reclamation work? I mean, the tapes are offsite, so is all of the reclamation done within the database? When I start the copypool reclamation with an upd stg copypool reclaim=50 it tells me what tapes it is going to perform reclamation on. Everything is OK, those tapes are offsite and my tapepool tapes are onsite ( I run a tapepool reclamation separate). I always understood that the process took place in the database and didn't actual need the tapes directly. This morning I noticed an anr1081i. 09/19/2003 09:05:05 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume xxxACRLx, storage pool COPYPOOL (process number 745). 09/19/2003 09:08:14 ANR1081W Space reclamation terminated for volume xxxACRLx - storage media inaccessible. Help on anr1081w shows that the tape was unavailable to mount, server waits and retries again, no user response. Do I have to checkin all tapes on the list for every copypool reclamation process everyday? Have I been doing it wrong for the last couple of years? I have read the technical guide and information guide redbooks but neither had much detail on the subject. I did find out one thing that brings up another question, to start reclamation, the technical guide state to use a number between 99 and 50 percent, why cutoff at 50% I have been running at 40% and at times have used 30%? Will the system recognize numbers lower than 50? OK last question on reclamation, is my goal to have the tapes listed with q vol that have a status of full to have as close to 100% utilized as I can get them to take full advantage of my library? I appreciate any help you can give to help me understand reclamation better, even if it is to direct me to another publication that has the details on this subject. I also tried search.adsm.org but could not get to it this morning. System TSM Server 5.1.6.3 with DRM, Win 2K. 3584 Library Thanks, Mark Bertrand * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: getting signed off this list
Server commands must go to the server address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and not the list address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I have attached instructions that were sent to me. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bartel, Heather [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can someone tell me how to get off this? I've tried to do it many times, but it doesn't seem to be working. Thanks. Heather L. Bartel This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information on a proactive email security service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete. ---BeginMessage--- Tue, 16 Nov 1999 17:52:08 Your subscription to the ADSM-L list (ADSM: Dist Stor Manager) has been accepted. Please save this message for future reference, especially if this is the first time you are subscribing to an electronic mailing list. If you ever need to leave the list, you will find the necessary instructions below. Perhaps more importantly, saving a copy of this message (and of all future subscription notices from other mailing lists) in a special mail folder will give you instant access to the list of mailing lists that you are subscribed to. This may prove very useful the next time you go on vacation and need to leave the lists temporarily so as not to fill up your mailbox while you are away! You should also save the welcome messages from the list owners that you will occasionally receive after subscribing to a new list. To send a message to all the people currently subscribed to the list, just send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is called sending mail to the list, because you send mail to a single address and LISTSERV makes copies for all the people who have subscribed. This address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is also called the list address. You must never try to send any command to that address, as it would be distributed to all the people who have subscribed. All commands must be sent to the LISTSERV address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]). It is very important to understand the difference between the two, but fortunately it is not complicated. The LISTSERV address is like a FAX number that connects you to a machine, whereas the list address is like a normal voice line connecting you to a person. If you make a mistake and dial the FAX number when you wanted to talk to someone on the phone, you will quickly realize that you used the wrong number and call again. No harm will have been done. If on the other hand you accidentally make your FAX call someone's voice line, the person receiving the call will be inconvenienced, especially if your FAX then re-dials every 5 minutes. The fact that most people will eventually connect the FAX machine to the voice line to allow the FAX to go through and make the calls stop does not mean that you should continue to send FAXes to the voice number. People would just get mad at you. It works pretty much the same way with mailing lists, with the difference that you are calling hundreds or thousands of people at the same time, and consequently you can expect a lot of people to get upset if you consistently send commands to the list address. You may leave the list at any time by sending a SIGNOFF ADSM-L command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or [EMAIL PROTECTED]). You can also tell LISTSERV how you want it to confirm the receipt of messages you send to the list. If you do not trust the system, send a SET ADSM-L REPRO command and LISTSERV will send you a copy of your own messages, so that you can see that the message was distributed and did not get damaged on the way. After a while you may find that this is getting annoying, especially if your mail program does not tell you that the message is from you when it informs you that new mail has arrived from ADSM-L. If you send a SET ADSM-L ACK NOREPRO command, LISTSERV will mail you a short acknowledgement instead, which will look different in your mailbox directory. With most mail programs you will know immediately that this is an acknowledgement you can read later. Finally, you can turn off acknowledgements completely with SET ADSM-L NOACK NOREPRO. Following instructions from
Re: q vol f=g ??!?
I still use it also and would be lost without it. It is much easier to look at things. I hate the web one. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: q vol f=g ??!? Hi Christo! Yep! I'm still using the 3.1.08 Admin GUI. I still like it a WHOLE LOT better than that hideous web admin interface. I'm also experiencing that same hang when clicking on the storagepool icon. I guess TSM returns some data which the Admin GUI can't handle. I submitted the requirement to our Tivoli Sales Rep and other channels for a real admin GUI some time ago, but I guess there are not enough people to support my requirement. I can imagine that IBM doesn't want to continue developing an admin GUI which only runs on Wintel, so what I think IBM should make is a port of the old Admin GUI to Java. I really miss the options like sort and proper filtering in the web admin. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Christo Heuer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 14:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: q vol f=g ??!? Hi Sascha, You have two (3) options when doing commands to TSM. Without the f=d, you get normal about, with it you get detailed info - (f=d). The 3rd option is format=gui. In the old days of ADSM there was a GUI that worked/works a whole lot better than the WEB Gui. When this interface sends commands to TSM it sends it with the format=GUI - and interprests the output to be displayed for the GUI. Just BTW - are any of you guys still using the GUI? I've got 4.2.6/5.1.5/5.1.6 TSM servers and the GUI still works fine - only where it gets to listing storage pools it stopped working after we upgraded to 5.1.5. Anyhow - the f=g is used by the old GUI. Regards Christo -- Hi to all the *SMers out there ! I just stumbled over the output of q vol f=g, actually is was a typo, I got no error Message but an output: - Volume Name: FRE660L1 Storage Pool Name: LTOPOOL Device Class Name: LTOCLASS Estimated Capacity (MB): 130,177.5 Pct Util: 20.1 Volume Status: Full Volume Status (GUI): 2 Access: Read/Write Access (GUI): 0 Pct. Reclaimable Space: 79.9 Scratch Volume?: Yes Scratch Volume? (GUI): 1 In Error State?: No In Error State? (GUI): 0 Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 76 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 08/10/2003 05:50:42 Approx. Date Last Read: 08/22/2003 13:52:56 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Last Update by (administrator): Last Update Date/Time: 08/05/2003 17:29:55 - Does anyone know what these (GUI)-outputs mean ? Or what they are good for ? command f=g does also work with q ses and produces similar outputs also containing this (GUI)-stuff. I didn't try any other commands yet. Server is TSM 5.1.7.0 running under Windows2000AdvSrv. Greetings, Sascha Askani __ The information contained in this communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in reliance of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Absa Bank Limited (registration number :1986/004794/06) is liable neither for the proper, complete transmission of the information contained in this communication, nor for any delay in its receipt, nor for the assurance that it is virus-free. ** 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. ** * This message and any
Re: Empty offsite tape reclamed again and again
I do not have the same problem but it is simpler. Since we have data stay on our disk pool, reclaim is slow. So we run a process that looks for offsite tapes that have a low fill amount (less than 10%) and do a move data on them. After the process sees the move data process end it check the volume. If it is not empty or pending then it e-mails me that there is a problem with tape x. The process I sent you is the one that I use to clear these when they no longer contain data but wont go to empty or pending. -- Phillip 8( 320-4462 -Original Message- From: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Empty offsite tape reclamed again and again This message was scanned by MIMEsweeper and determined to possibly be Spam mail. This scanning was performed to assist you in dealing more effectively with this type of message in the future. You may read the message and determine what course of action is appropriate to take. The below link will take you to an internal Webpage with several options to automatically process messages that are determined to be Spam. Please review these options and decide which solution is appropriate in your situation: http://corporate/cit/Rescenter/email/spamrule.pdf a href=http://corporate/cit/Rescenter/email/spamrule.pdf;http://corporate/ci t/Rescenter/email/spamrule.pdf/a Hi Phillip, Thanks for your procedure, I tried it, and while issuing audit vol .. got this message : 08/06/03 15:49:39 ANR2334W Missing or incorrect information detected by AUDIT VOLUME for volume 08 - information will be created or corrected. Now, q vol f=d returns : Volume Name: 08 Storage Pool Name: COPYLTO1_AIX Device Class Name: LTO1 Estimated Capacity (MB): 0.0 Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Empty Access: Offsite Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 8 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 09/24/02 08:59:57 Approx. Date Last Read: 09/21/02 17:24:57 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: VAULT Last Update by (administrator): BAR021 Last Update Date/Time: 08/06/03 15:52:49 And q drm returns : 08 Vault retrieve 09/24/02 10:11:07 So I think everything is fine again ! Thanks a lot for your help ... By the way, did you face the same problem that you could gave me such a rapid response, and case of a positive answer, do you know what happened that resulted in such a behaviour ? Cheers. Arnaud =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group | | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland | | Phone: +41 61 226 19 78 / Fax: +41 61 226 17 01 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -Original Message- From: Ford, Phillip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 06 August, 2003 15:06 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Empty offsite tape reclamed again and again If there is no contents on the volume and it will not go back to scratch then do the following: Update vol 08 access=readw Audit vol 08 fix=yes Update vol 08 access=offsite Now the volume should show as empty (or pending) and not filling. If you are running DRM it will take care of the rest. If not then you will have to recall tape and update its status. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Empty offsite tape reclamed again and again Hi list ! TSM server 5.1.6.2 on AIX 4.3.3 Could someone explain following behaviour : TSM server insists reclaming an offsite empty tape several times a day, sometimes restarting a new reclamation process seconds after the first one ceased. Q act begint=-12 s=08 shows (snippet of it) 06.08.2003 08:57:17 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 08, storage pool COPYLTO1_AIX (process number 1401). 06.08.2003 08:57:17 ANR1041I Space reclamation ended for volume 08. 06.08.2003 08:57:56 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 08, storage pool COPYLTO1_AIX (process number 1402). 06.08.2003 08:58:00 ANR1041I Space reclamation ended for volume 08. 06.08.2003 09:07:51 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 08, storage pool COPYLTO1_AIX (process number 1403
Re: Empty offsite tape reclamed again and again
If there is no contents on the volume and it will not go back to scratch then do the following: Update vol 08 access=readw Audit vol 08 fix=yes Update vol 08 access=offsite Now the volume should show as empty (or pending) and not filling. If you are running DRM it will take care of the rest. If not then you will have to recall tape and update its status. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Empty offsite tape reclamed again and again Hi list ! TSM server 5.1.6.2 on AIX 4.3.3 Could someone explain following behaviour : TSM server insists reclaming an offsite empty tape several times a day, sometimes restarting a new reclamation process seconds after the first one ceased. Q act begint=-12 s=08 shows (snippet of it) 06.08.2003 08:57:17 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 08, storage pool COPYLTO1_AIX (process number 1401). 06.08.2003 08:57:17 ANR1041I Space reclamation ended for volume 08. 06.08.2003 08:57:56 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 08, storage pool COPYLTO1_AIX (process number 1402). 06.08.2003 08:58:00 ANR1041I Space reclamation ended for volume 08. 06.08.2003 09:07:51 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 08, storage pool COPYLTO1_AIX (process number 1403). 06.08.2003 09:07:51 ANR1041I Space reclamation ended for volume 08. 06.08.2003 09:11:13 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 08, storage pool COPYLTO1_AIX (process number 1404). 06.08.2003 09:11:13 ANR1041I Space reclamation ended for volume 08. 06.08.2003 09:30:49 ANR1040I Space reclamation started for volume 08, storage pool COPYLTO1_AIX (process number 1405). This begins a soon as I lower reclamation threshold for copylt01_aix stgpool, and lasts untill I increase it back to 100. Curiously no tape from corresponding primary stgpool is mounted, no output tape is created, and more troubling q vol 08 f=d gives me that output : q vol 08 f=d Volume Name: 08 Storage Pool Name: COPYLTO1_AIX Device Class Name: LTO1 Estimated Capacity (MB): 222.701,1 Pct Util: 0,0 Volume Status: Filling Access: Offsite Pct. Reclaimable Space: 100,0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 8 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 24.09.2002 08:59:57 Approx. Date Last Read: 21.09.2002 17:24:57 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: VAULT Last Update by (administrator): OPERATOR Last Update Date/Time: 24.09.2002 10:11:07 From what I read, the system insists reclaming an empty tape, that hasn't been written since 11 month ! Doing a q con 08 returns ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. Anyone having an idea of what could be happening here, and how to get a rid of this (delete the volume, move data ?) Thanks in advance ! Cheers. Arnaud =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group | | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland | | Phone: +41 61 226 19 78 / Fax: +41 61 226 17 01 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Backups bypassing disk pool
You say that there is another management class in the domain. Does it have longer retention than the default. If so then the directory objects are bound to this class and if this class is to tape then the directory objects will go to tape. Hope this helps -- Phillip 320-4462 -Original Message- From: William Sherrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backups bypassing disk pool I have some clients (Windows 2000) that are backing up straight to my tapepool instead of the disk pool. My server is AIX 5.1.6.2. and most of the windows clients are running at 5.1.5.9. The clients are associated to a management class that's default management class should cause the backups to go to the disk storage pool. There is a management class within the domain that directs the backups to the tape pool, but I do not have it included in the dsm.opt file, in fact I do not have any management class defined, meaning that it should go to the default. Has anyone experienced this problem? Also, I tried an incremental of the c drive with the disk storage pool empty and it's estimated capacity is 38 gb and it still called for a tape. The capacity of the c drive of the client is under 1.5 gb. Thanks, Bill Sherrill * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Multi session backup restore question
One way to get multi-restore to work is to collocate on filesystems in the tape pool. If one collocates to the node then the problem that your discussed happens. This is a designation of the pool so all nodes going to this tape pool will be collocated by filesspace and that can eat a lot of tapes. Another way is to logically break up your server into say four nodes. Each node has a domain/excludes/includes that limits it to certain set of filesystems. As long as the pool that they are going to is collocated by node, they can go to the same tape pool. Now during restores there is no contention for the same tape. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: MC Matt Cooper (2838) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Multi session backup restore question Hello all, I am trying to work in a multi session backup and be able to use a multi session restore. What I have found is that with the maxresourceutilization set to 8 that my 350GB 8 processor AIX client is using only 4 data sessions and 4 control sessions. The data all goes to the disk pool and then the migration will use only 1 tape drive for this data. I then assume a multi session restore is not going to work. 1) how can I get this backup to use more sessions for data transfer? 2) Am I correct in believing that the multi-session restore is out because of the actions of the migration process? MUST this go direct to tape to have multi session backup and RESTORE? Thanks in advance, Matt * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Move Drmedia ... Remove=BULK asks for a reply
We saw this problem also. We ended up writing an OS script that the operators start. It does the below command and then looks for one of two things. If a request is found then it replies to it. If the move drm process goes away then it stops. This has worked very good for us. But like you said the library and command do not do what the book says. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Move Drmedia ... Remove=BULK asks for a reply I have suspected I saw it on occasion. But not well enough to document. I have a 3583, 6 LTO1 drives, 60 slots, and door with 12 slots. TSM on Win2K is 4.2.3.1 -Original Message- From: John Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Move Drmedia ... Remove=BULK asks for a reply Greetings, We recently installed a new TSM server on a pSeries 650 using TSM 5.1.6.5, and a 3584 Tape Library with a L32 and D32 frames with 15 LTO Gen 1 Tape drives. The library has the 10 i/o slot option. The server and library work great, except for one quirk. When we go to check out our drm media, we use: move drmedia * wherestate=mountable tostate=vault remove=bulk This performs the 'move drmedia' OK, but asks for a reply back after every tape checks out! According to the manual, a remove=bulk shouldn't require a reply, but for some reason it does on this library. The tapes do correctly get sent to the bulk loader in the library, so aside from the annoying request that gets generated, the checkout proceeds normally. We have a 3583 library, and issue the same command to it, and it doesn't ask for a reply. Has anyone seen this behavior, and know what to do to stop it? John Schneider *** * John D. Schneider Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: 636-492-0247 * Lowery Systems, Inc. * 1329 Horan Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are * Fenton, MO 63026 mine and mine alone. *** * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Schedule for the last day of the month...every month
If you are doing it inside TSM I can give you an approach. I am not good with SQL so you or someone on this list could help. You could run a schedule everyday and have a select statement in it like the following: select 1 from whatever where month(current date) = month(current date + 1 day) if(rc_ok) goto stop do your stuff for the last day of the month exit stop: do stuff here for other days exit Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Schedule for the last day of the month...every month I have a client that wants to do monthly backups on the last day of the month. A co-worker did some testing and creating a schedule for say 5/31/3002 with PERU=MONTH. The June event gets scheduled for 6/30, but then remains the 30th day from then on. Until Feb next year when it moves to the 29th. Outside of creating a schedule for each month with a PERU=YEAR, is there a way to do a schedule on the last day of every month?? TIA, Bill Boyer Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield. - ?? * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Maximum number of DB volumes
We have TSM version 4.2.1.15 (moving soon to a 5... level) running on AIX 4.3.3. Another TSM manager told me that there should be a maximum of 16 DB volumes. They said that there could be more but that they had heard that there is system degradation if one was to use more that 16 DB volumes. Has anyone else heard of this. It was new to me and I was just wondering what the situation was. Thanks -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: STK 9310 Eject Script
Here is my script
--snip---
#!/usr/bin/sh
#set -x
# file /var/operlib/adsm/remove_drm
# debug - 0 no debug 1-print 2-simulate
debug=0
lib=lib0
if [ $debug -gt 0 ]; then
echo debug is on and set to $debug
echo library to use is $lib
fi
cat /etc/adsm/adsm | read usr pw
CMD=dsmadmc -id=$usr -password=$pw
CMD1=dsmadmc -id=$usr -password=$pw -comma
$CMD move drm * wherestate=mountable tostate=vault remove=untileefull
/tmp/che
ckout_log
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
RETRY=0
sleep 30
while true
do
$CMD q request /tmp/checkout_ask
grep ANR8322I /tmp/checkout_ask /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
RETRY=0
grep ANR8322I /tmp/checkout_ask |grep Remove LTO volume |awk
'{print $
2}' /tmp/checkout_reply
COMMAND=`sed s/://g /tmp/checkout_reply`
$CMD reply $COMMAND /dev/null
rm /tmp/checkout_*
sleep 30
else
# now check if move drm is still running - if not quit
i=`$CMD1 q proc | /var/operlib/adsm/cleanhdrs | grep -c MOVE
DRMEDIA
`
if [ $i = 0 ]; then
rm /tmp/checkout_*
break
fi
rm /tmp/checkout_*
sleep 30
# if (( $RETRY30 )) ; then
# RETRY=`expr $RETRY + 1`
# else
# break
# fi
fi
done
fi
snip
Hope that helps
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From: Ben Chuang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: STK 9310 Eject Script
I'm looking to see if anybody has written a script that they could share
that fixes the issue with having to reply to automatic ejects when using a
STK 9310 with TSM. Every time tapes are ejected, TSM expects a reply so it
knows that the tapes have actually been removed. This is fine for manual
checkouts, but I'd like to automate the replies when automatically ejecting
tapes. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I figured I see if anybody had
written a script that they could share with me.
I contacted Tivoli about this feature and they say that they have no plans
on changing the way this works.
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Re: Delete volume error
Try audit vol 000592L1 fix=yes and then a delete if necessary. The answer to this question is in the archives. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Greg Redell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delete volume error I have am having an issue removing a volume from a copy storage pool. Reclamation and move data's just reduce the % used to 0 and all the files are off the tape. It just won't go to a pending state so I have to watch for this one tape and call it back manually, DRM still sees it as having data where all the other tapes come back to be re-used. I have even tried deleting the volume discard=yes, but tsm comes back saying it has data. The tape was allocated to this copy pool under 5.1.1.6. I am currently at: Windows 2000 SP 2 TSM 5.1.6.2 Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks! q vol 000592l1 f=d Volume Name: 000592L1 Storage Pool Name: GRPMISCCLTO Device Class Name: LTOCLASS Estimated Capacity (MB): 204,800.0 Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Filling Access: Readonly Pct. Reclaimable Space: 100.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 9 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 03/21/2003 10:21:38 Approx. Date Last Read: 03/21/2003 16:12:34 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Last Update by (administrator): XXX Last Update Date/Time: 03/24/2003 09:23:22 Move Data: 03/24/2003 10:13:02 ANR2017I Administrator XXX issued command: MOVE DATA 000592l1 03/24/2003 10:13:02 ANR2209W Volume 000592L1 contains no data. Query Contents: 03/24/2003 10:13:15 ANR2017I Administrator XXX issued command: QUERY CONTENT 000592l1 03/24/2003 10:13:15 ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. Delete Vol: 03/24/2003 10:13:38 ANR2017I Administrator XXX issued command: DELETE VOLUME 000592l1 discarddata=yes 03/24/2003 10:13:38 ANR2406E DELETE VOLUME: Volume 000592L1 still contains data. Greg Redell Great-West Life Annuity Insurance Co. Phone: 314-525-5877 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Exchange IS errors
We did not get a solution to this problem. We finally rebooted and ran exchange optimize (perfwiz.exe) as requested by TSM support. This fixed us for now. Just an update for everyone. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Del Hoobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Exchange IS errors Mal, RC=425 means there was an Exchange error. ACN5350E means there was an unknown Exchange API error. An unknown Exchange API error means that the Exchange server encountered a situation that it did not expect, and so it failed the API call. To properly diagnose this problem, a trace will need to be obtained and examined by the support team. The trace will contain the specific error code and API that failed. You can always try rebooting the machine first, to see if the problem persists. If it does, then please call IBM support. Thanks, Del Del Hoobler IBM Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Remember that the best job security is doing a job well and doing it cheerfully. = Trying to backup and Exchange IS (sure I've asked this before but I've lost the replies that were sent). The exchange server is coming up with an API error (ACN5350E) and RC=425. * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental
I am going to stick my foot in my mouth but here goes. I do not feel that 3 months ago, 9 months ago, or 7 years ago are backups. These are archives. We have the problem here that the higher ups tend to think of archives as backups. We try to define backups for short term retrieval of data. Like I accidentally deleted my home directory could you restore it? Sometimes short term may be up to a year or more. Our performance data is an example. Auditing and other long term purposes are not backups but archives. Since TSM has both then use the proper one for the proper purpose. Also TSM has backup sets which could be used for either purpose. Sorry but that is my 2 cents worth. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental My question to you would be, could you do a restore, say 3 months ago, or 9 months ago? How do you keep files longer than the versions on the active database. Our Month End fulls will keep us current for our Auditing purposes. Thank You, Bill Rosette Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International WWJD Roger Deschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: cc: Dist StorSubject: Re: progressive backup vs. full + incremental Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU 03/07/2003 01:21 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager We had an actual disaster last spring. An 80 gigabyte Unix file system that contained all of our email became corrupted. This node was being backed up both by TSM (with collocation, as this is obviously a critical node), and by old-fashioned full+incremental backups. We had a restore race. TSM lost, but not by much. Close enough to call it a tie, and we were very pleasantly surprised that it was this close. 3:45 for TSM, versus 3:15 for the old-fashioned restore. If we could plan all our disasters for the day after the full backup, like this one was, the full+incremental method would always win. But by day 6 of the weekly cycle, TSM would become considerably faster. With a full+differential scheme, restore time might be faster, but differential backups are so much more costly to make. By the end of the cycle, a differential backup could practically be a full backup. Consider all those unnecessary copies of a file that changed only once, on day 1 of the cycle. In theory, the worst case without collocation is that a node's files could be scattered over all the tapes in your library. In practice, that is not the case. I'm not sure why, but I think that migration and reclamation at least make an effort not to make the scattering any worse. Larger disk storage pools definitely help reduce the scattering. I completely agree with Don France about taking the time to accurately separate your nodes by criticality. We do this, using exactly his three-tiered scheme. The key to TSM's progressive backup scheme is that it is totally database-driven. Don't try to circumvent it by imposing periodic full backups on it - TSM _ALWAYS_ has a full backup of each node! Every day, not just on the day after your full backup. It's in the database. This, however, takes a slight leap of faith for us who were brought up in the full+incremental cycles of mainframe days. It's easier if you forget about individual tape volumes, and consider your entire tape library and its robot to be one huge tape. Do away with those full backups, and your tape drive bandwidth and database size problems should be significantly reduced. What is the purpose of a full backup? To reduce restore time in a disaster. You're better off achieving that goal with 1) collocation for the most critical nodes, and 2) TSM Database disk tuning. That's how TSM earned a virtual tie in the restore race in my actual disaster. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Academic Computing Communications Center On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, William Rosette wrote: I agree with A), B) I'm not sure about the consolidating the tape mounts, could be my DIRMC for NT file servers are off. On the (suppose C)) I am trying to implement but I am having trouble with Month Ends. Currently we have 117 nodes and 31 maximum days in a month. I run 2 backupsets that use 4 tape drives giving 6 left for daily and nightly operations. Each backupset takes about 24 hours and is getting longer because of nocollocation and reclamation spreading the information further out. What I want to do is reduce my storage
Re: Exchange IS errors
I have an open problem with TSM on this very subject. Their first incline is to make sure service pack 4 is installed on exchange. On ours it is/was. So that is not the fix. I will post if I find out anything. We feel that it may be size related. We have too such clients. One small and working. The large one was growing. Suddenly about a week ago it stopped working. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Gibb, Malcolm A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Exchange IS errors All, Trying to backup and Exchange IS (sure I've asked this before but I've lost the replies that were sent). The exchange server is coming up with an API error (ACN5350E) and RC=425. Mountwait is set to yes, compression is off. The Dbase is about 35GB in size. Anyone got any ideas. Mal Tel - (0191) 587 8941 Implementation Technical Lead Quantum DSMC Peterlee mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * This message and any attachments are solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Automatic checkin on a 3584?
Here is a script that I use to remove media. It has to do a reply for each
tape. The section on looking for at q req and responding should do about
what you want. The functions at the top are from an old script and not used
in this one. I am short on time so I did not clean it up for you. Sorry.
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#!/usr/bin/sh
#set -x
# file /var/operlib/adsm/remove_drm
# sub to check process to see if it is still running
check_process() {
process=`dsmadmc -id=$usr -pass=$pw q proc $job1 | grep -c 'MOVE DRMEDIA'`
if [ $debug -gt 0 ]; then
echo process is $process
fi
if [ $debug -gt 1 ]; then
process=1
echo resetting process to $process
fi
}
# sub to get request number
get_request() {
request=0
req=
dsmadmc -id=$usr -pass=$pw q request | grep 'Remove 3570' | read x1 req x3 x4
if [ $debug -gt 0 ]; then
echo req is $req
fi
if [ $debug -gt 1 ]; then
req=026:
echo resetting req to $req
fi
if [ X${req} != X ]; then
len=`expr length $req`
len=`expr $len - 1`
req=`expr substr $req 1 $len`
request=`expr $req + 0`
fi
if [ $debug -gt 0 ]; then
echo request is $request
fi
if [ $debug -gt 1 ]; then
request=1
echo resetting request to $request
fi
}
# debug - 0 no debug 1-print 2-simulate
debug=0
lib=lib0
if [ $debug -gt 0 ]; then
echo debug is on and set to $debug
echo library to use is $lib
fi
cat /etc/adsm/adsm | read usr pw
CMD=dsmadmc -id=$usr -password=$pw
CMD1=dsmadmc -id=$usr -password=$pw -comma
$CMD move drm * wherestate=mountable tostate=vault remove=untileefull
/tmp/checkout_log
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
RETRY=0
sleep 30
while true
do
$CMD q request /tmp/checkout_ask
grep ANR8322I /tmp/checkout_ask /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
RETRY=0
grep ANR8322I /tmp/checkout_ask |grep Remove LTO volume |awk '{print $2}'
/tmp/checkout_reply
COMMAND=`sed s/://g /tmp/checkout_reply`
$CMD reply $COMMAND /dev/null
rm /tmp/checkout_*
sleep 30
else
# now check if move drm is still running - if not quit
i=`$CMD1 q proc | /var/operlib/adsm/cleanhdrs | grep -c MOVE DRMEDIA`
if [ $i = 0 ]; then
rm /tmp/checkout_*
break
fi
rm /tmp/checkout_*
sleep 30
# if (( $RETRY30 )) ; then
# RETRY=`expr $RETRY + 1`
# else
# break
# fi
fi
done
fi
Re: Order of daily administrative events
Backups Creation of copypool volumes from disk Creation of copypool volumes from primary tape DB backup Remove offsite tapes Migration from disk to cartridge Expiration Reclamation -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Order of daily administrative events Backups creation of copypool volumes Migration from disk to cartridge DB backup Expiration (which triggers reclamation) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/20/03 11:28AM I was just wondering what order that most TSM users have their daily processes running (IE: Migration, Expiration, Reclaim etc). It seems that those process times were set up wrong when our TSM server was first installed. Our process schedule looks this way right now. I know its way off base from what it should be. Any suggestions? I know I need to put EXPIRATION first. thanks, Tommy Templeton Senior System Administrator DFA-MMRS 601-359-3106 e-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scheduled Start Actual Start Schedule Name Status - - 02/19/03 06:00:0002/19/03 06:00:16BACKUPSTG_D- CompletedBackup disk storagepool ISK 02/19/03 06:15:0002/19/03 06:15:17BACKUPSTG_T- Completed Backup tape storagepool 02/19/03 07:30:0002/19/03 07:30:18BACKUPSTG_O- Failed Backup tape offsitepool FFSITE 02/19/03 09:00:0002/19/03 09:00:19RESET_MIGR_- Completed Reset threshold for migrate to tape pool low LOW 02/19/03 11:00:0002/19/03 11:00:20RESET_RECLA- Completed Reset threshold for reclamation of offsitepool1 low IM_OFFSITE- _LOW 02/19/03 13:00:0002/19/03 13:03:50DBBACKUP_FULL CompletedTSM database backup 02/18/03 14:00:0002/18/03 14:00:11EXPIRE_INVE- Completed Expire inventory NTORY 02/19/03 14:00:0002/19/03 14:00:21RESET_MIGR_- Completed Reset threshold for migrate to tape pool high HIGH 02/19/03 14:00:0002/19/03 14:00:21RESET_RECLA- Completed Reset threshold for reclamation of tapepool low IM_LOW 02/19/03 17:00:0002/19/03 17:00:21DELETE_VOL_- CompletedDelete volume history file HIST 02/19/03 17:00:0002/19/03 17:00:21DEL_DBVOL_H- CompletedDelete database volume history IST 02/19/03 17:15:0002/19/03 17:15:21DEL_DBSNAP_- Completeddelete dbsnapshot volume history HIST 02/19/03 18:00:0002/19/03 18:00:22RESET_RECLA- CompletedReset threshold for reclamation of tapepool high IM_HIGH 02/19/03 18:30:0002/19/03 18:30:22RESET_RECL_- Completed Reset threshold for reclaim of copy pool high COPY_HIGH 02/19/03 19:00:0002/19/03 19:00:22RESET_RECLA- Completed Reset threshold for reclamation of offsitepool1high IM_OFFSITE- _HIGH * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: backup copy group
It uses both specs and it applies all of them. Thus, the answer to your question is the 7th file will fall off after 30 days and there will only be 6 due to the following: Retain Extra 30 Versions rule. Also if you delete the file, the next day (or after a backup up and expire inventory) you will only have 3 versions due to the follow: Versions Data3 Deleted clause. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: backup copy group There is some confusion as to how backup copy groups work with the retention periods of files. Could someone please clarify? Thanks!!! Here is the backup copy group in question: Policy DomainDESKTOP Name Policy Set Name STANDARD Mgmt Class Name STANDARD Copy Group Name STANDARD Versions Data7 Exists Versions Data3 Deleted Retain Extra 30 Versions Retain Only 90 Version Copy ModeMODIFIED Copy SHRSTATIC Serialization Copy Frequency 0 Copy Destination SPACEMGPOOL File1 File2 File3 File4 File5 File6 File7 Created 1/1/03 1/2/03 1/3/03 1/4/03 1/5/03 1/6/03 1/7/03 If I have 7 files out there (1 still being the active version) and I no longer make any changes to the file, therefore the file doesn't get updated, in this environment, if 30 days have passed (and the date is 2/7/03), will the 7th version of the file fall off and leave only 6 remaining versions of the file even though the versions data exist is 7? Or will 7 versions of that file always exist as long as the file is active? Thanks for any help! Joni Moyer Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338 * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Changing tape vol from pending status to readwrite
If you don't want to change the REUSEDELAY but force some tapes back to scratch, I believe you can do a delete vol on them and they will got to empty. If they are in the library, they will go to scratch. I use this on my primary tapes when I run out of scratches and need a scratch tape for DB backup. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changing tape vol from pending status to readwrite The tapes stay in PENDING status until the REUSEDELAY days (set in the parms for the storage pool) have elapsed. To make them go back to READWRITE, you either have to wait, or change the REUSEDELAY parm. After the REUSEDELAY has elapsed, I think TSM checks about once an hour for tapes that need to be set back to empty/readwrite. You can't force them, as far as I know. -Original Message- From: Ron Lochhead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Changing tape vol from pending status to readwrite TSM = 5.11 OS= Win2K I have many tapes in my tapepool which show status as pending. I am trying to upd the status to readwrite so I can use the tapes now. I realize that the pending will automatically change to readwrite at a certain time period. Can I move to readwrite now? I have already tried to use, upd vol volname access=readwrite but when I check by q vol the vol status still is set at pending. Thanks for any help. Ron * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Restore old Data via gui
Why not try dsm -virtualnode=nodename This works for us. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Schmitz Garnebode [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restore old Data via gui Good day, we have here some problems with the gui restore. TSM-Client 4.2.3 TSM-Sever 4.2.3.0 both AIX 4.3.3 We want restore old data from another node backuped with ADSM-Version 3.1.6.0 With the commandline we see the data. We use: dsmc restore -pick -ina -virtualnode=nodename -se=servername filespacename everything is ok. This are the steps we do with the gui: I am root!! 1. dsm 2. Login 3. From the menuebar File-Login change the nodename userid and Password 3. The connectioninformation looks ok. The new node ist loged in. 4. Open the restore windows- change the active/inactive state. 5. Go down to the file level and i saw nothing Other way. I put the nodename with the old data to the dsm.sys file. Start dsm- login with the right password. Do restore - change active/inactive The same result in the gui NOTHING With the commandline everything is ok. What can i do ?? regards Michael Garnebode Diplom-Informatiker Schmitz Rz Consult GmbH Bachstr.1 50259 Pulheim Tel.: 02238/922266 Fax: 02238/922267 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] im Auftrag der SWEST Sparkassen-Informatik-Services West GmbH Abt. : 731-52400 Spacemanagement Postanschrift : Postfach 10 53 10 D - 40044 Düsseldorf Besuchsadresse : Heerdter Lohweg 35 Raum B0-29 Düsseldorf Tel.: +49 211 826 8896 Fax : +49 211 826 8446 Web: http://www.swest.de * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: filespace no longer backed up because mount or drive is gone
Others can correct me if I am wrong. Extra versions (inactive) are still controlled by the management class. The final active versions are kept forever. TSM does not know if they were deleted or the filespace went bad for some reason. Thus one has to hand delete them from TSM if they are not needed. The only thing I am not 100% sure of is the inactive versions. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: filespace no longer backed up because mount or drive is gone Can anyone tell me what the affect is if a filespace no longer exists? Lets say either a drive D on a Windows server or /cost1 is no longer on a unix client. The filespace is no longer on the new client with the same name so it hasn't been touched in say 180 days. What is really there? Does the management class settings have any affect on it? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154 * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Canceling a Script?
I can tell you what we do. I make a script that is a place holder like process_x_ok. In my main script at each point that I may want to stop I check to see if there is a script call process_x_stop (see below). If yes, then rename the script to process_x_ok and stop. If no then continue. This has worked great for us. Thus to stop the script I issue the command rename script process_x_ok process_x_stop. select * from script_names were name='PROCESS_X_STOP' if(rc_ok) goto stop . . . . exit stop: rename script process_x_stop process_x_ok Hope this helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Nancy R. Brizuela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Canceling a Script? All, Is there any way to cancel a TSM script once it has started? I have a daily maintenance script that runs several processes, one after the other. I often find it necessary to stop the script for one reason or another. I have had to let the script keep running and cancel the processes one at a time as they are initiated by the script. Please tell me there is a better way to do this... Thanks, Nancy Brizuela University of Wyoming IBM Systems Group Ivinson Room 238 (307)766-2958 * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: synthetic fullbackup
Make the tape pool collocation enabled and do a migration on the disk pool (update stg diskpool hi=0 low=0). Also helps to have migration process set to 1 for the disk pool. I don't know if this is necessary or not. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ron Lochhead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: synthetic fullbackup Hi Halvorsen: I am trying to implement this same move nodedata idea, but am coming up with problem. My environment is Win2k server running TSM server 5.1.5.2 and same on clients. My goal is consolidate my tapepool data for each node so each node has it's own tape. We only have 25 nodes. I figured out how to move nodedata to our diskpool but now how do I put nodedata from diskpool back on to one tapepool tape? The error I got said that I couldn't move nodedata from diskpool back to tapepool because of sequential access storage. Any ideas? Thanks, Ron Lochhead Halvorsen GeirrTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gulbrand cc: gehal@WMDATASubject: Re: synthetic fullbackup .COM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] RIST.EDU 12/18/2002 05:44 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi Werner, we might need some clearifying of your setup. What is your server version? Are you backing up to tape, or disk? Generally I can say this: If you are running TSM v. 5.x you have the possibility to use MOVE NODEDATA, which moves data for one node to another storagepool (from tape to disk), and then start your restore from the diskpool. It may sound strange, because you move the data twice, but often, you have a delay between the time you decide to restore, until you actually start the restore (f.ex. in a disaster recovery situation, where you have to get new hardware, install OS + TSM client software, before you start the restore). In this interval, you can start to move data from tape to disk, and the subsequent restore will be alot faster. The other possibility is to use collocation by filespace. Different filespaces from the same server will be collocated on different tapes, enabling you to simultaneously start a restore for each filespace. This helps reducing restore times. Third option is using backupsets, which can be created just for active files. Then you will have all active files on one volume. Others may also have an opinion on best approach to solve this. I have just pointed out some of TSM's features. Rgds. Geirr Halvorsen -Original Message- From: Schwarz Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18. december 2002 14:08 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: synthetic fullbackup We are looking for a solution for the following problem: During a restore of a whole TSM-client we found that the needed ACTIVE backup_versions were heavy scattered around our virtual tape-volumes. This was the main reason for an unacceptable long restore-time. Disk as a primary STGPool is too expensive. Now we are looking for methods to 'cluster together' all active backup_versions per node without backing up the whole TSM-client every night (like VERITAS NetbackUp). Ideally the full_backup should be done in the TSM-server (starting with an initial full_backup, then combining the full_backup and the incrementals from next run to build the next synthetic full_backup and so on). We already have activated COLLOCATE. Has anybody good ideas? thanks, werner * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: Procedures to follow after a drive with a stuck tape is repla ced -- 3584 library
For this reason we run a backup stg from the primary disks to copytape pool before we do migration. If the copytape is damaged by a tape drive, the data is still on disk. If the primary tape is damaged during or after migration then there is the good copytape. So the question is do you have a copytape of the data? If so then you can do a restore vol x preview=yes where x is the destroyed tape and the system will send to the actlog what tapes are needed. Then these tapes can be made available (i.e. called back the ones that are offsite). If there are some offsite we mark all tapes needed as unavailable. When we have them onsite and checked in, we mark them all readonly. Now you can issue a restore volume x. This should recreate the damaged tape. Also once all the volumes are checked in, the restore can be started if necessary. If you do not have a copytape, then you are in a bad position. If the data is no longer on the server and your primary is not readable, I do not have any good words for you but sorry. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Thach, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Procedures to follow after a drive with a stuck tape is replaced -- 3584 library The other day I had to replace one of the drives in my 3584 library because a tape was jammed in it. This tape was being written to by a migration process when it jammed (during daily processing). The procedure went on to complete successfully, but a q libvol shows that the tape is still in the library in a private status even though it has been destroyed. Last night I had a restore fail (I'm guessing some of the data was on the tape that got stuck?) I basically need to know what procedures / commands need to be executed once a tape has been destroyed to ensure that the data on that tape is available on another tape. I figure an audit library will make it recognize it's gone, but how do I deal with the data? Thanks in advance, Kevin This E-mail contains PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION intended only for the use of the Individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this E-mail, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination or copying of this E-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this E-mail in error, please immediately notify us at (865) 374-4900 or notify us by E-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Stable version of 4.2.1.x
We just upgraded from 3.7.2 to 4.2.1.7 on our AIX 4.3.3 ML10 RS6000 TSM server. We have started having some core dumps of TSM. About one to two a week. I have found version 4.2.1.8 through 4.2.1.15 on the FTP site. Can anyone tell me if any of these are stable? I remember someone telling me that 4.2.1.13 was a good version. What about 15? If I have to go to 4.2.2.x I will but I would like to stay at 4.2.1 for now. Thanks -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete.
Re: backup storge pool
Yes you can just do a cancel proc and it will die after it finishes the current file. When you issue the backup stg command later, it will do files that do not have a backup. We do this all the time when we have service people come in. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Rob Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: backup storge pool I want to make off site copies of my storage pool for the obvious reasons. I currently have about 100 3590E tapes that I need to initially duplicate and then plan on doing a backup storage pool everyday and send those tapes off site. It is my understanding that to start this whole process I need to do a backup storage pool which will copy all 100 tapes. My question is whether I can cancel that backup command and have it again restart where it left off. I need all my tape drives from 8:00pm to 8:00 am for backups and it will take much longer than the remaining 12 hours to duplicate that data. Thanks Rob Schroeder Famous Footwear *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: LTO Bulk Reader filled....
Thanks, I was thinking about doing something like that but had not gotten
around to it. I will give it a try - thanks again. P.S. I still feel that
the command move drm remove=untileefull works wrong!!
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Phillip
-Original Message-
From: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 1:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LTO Bulk Reader filled
Hi Phillip,
You're absolutely right in you assertion : you effectively have to give an
answer for each ejected tape, but a simple shell script could make your life
much easier, like this one, that queries TSM server to find out what reply
it has to issue, and then responds with correct value.
CMD=dsmadmc -id= -password=x
$CMD move drm * wherestate=mountable tostate=vault remove=untileefull if
[ $? -eq 0 ]; then
RETRY=0
sleep 30
while true
do
$CMD q request /tmp/checkout_ask
grep ANR8322I /tmp/checkout_ask /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
RETRY=0
grep ANR8322I /tmp/checkout_ask |awk '{print $2}'
/tmp/checkou t_reply
COMMAND=`sed s/://g /tmp/checkout_reply`
$CMD reply $COMMAND
rm /tmp/checkout_*
sleep 30
else
if (( $RETRY==0 )) ; then
RETRY=1
sleep 30
else
rm /tmp/checkout_*
break
fi
fi
done
Fi
Note the double loop with sleep 30 statement : it gives TSM server (and
robotic device) some times to do it's checkout business, case it would be
busy doing other tapes mounts/dismounts. Voila, everything will be done
automatically now ! Hope it helped Arnaud
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From: Ford, Phillip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 16 August, 2002 16:41
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LTO Bulk Reader filled
When I tried the remove=untileefull clause (vers 3.7.2), it then asked me
to respond to each tape with a reply. If I have to respond to each tape, I
might as well do it the old way and remove them when I count to ten. I want
it to take them out and not ask me and then stop when the bulk area is full.
Has this changed since v 3.7.2 to work correctly (or what I think is
correctly)?
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Corporate Computer Center
Schering-Plough Corp.
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From: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LTO Bulk Reader filled
Hi David,
You should get a rid of this problem by adding remove=untileefull in your
move drm statement ! Hope it helped ! Cheers.
Arnaud
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-Original Message-
From: David Stabler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, 16 August, 2002 14:59
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LTO Bulk Reader filled
I was using DRM to manage a copypool, and sent my Vault tapes to the bulk
reader. I wasn't paying attention at the time, but I sent more than 10
tapes. The extra tapes were dutifully marked at the Vault, and TSM lost
track of them, but they were still in the LTO! A key, and a few minutes of
scanning, found them, but it wasn't what I expected
Is there any way in TSM to monitor, easily, how many tapes are to be
ejected, compare that to what, if any, tapes are already in the bulk reader,
and send only what can fit? Or, error out for trying to do too much?
I have written a rather nasty shell script that does a few selects, picks a
tape list, cuts off the top 10 tapes, and only sends those (one at a time,
rather than with any wildcards), but I'm wondering if I'm using a sledge
hammer on this finishing nail
AIX 4.3.3, TSM 4.2.1.8
-drs-
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Re: last sunday of the month
I do it for the last Friday of the month. I do it by using the TZ variable and number of hours for a week (168, 24 hours by 7 days). My script is made to run on Friday only (every Friday). I get the current month(cm) and I get next weeks Friday's month with the following for central time: cm=`data +%m` nm=`TZ=CST6CDT-168 date +%m` If cm equals nm then this is not the last Friday of month and quit. If cm not equal to nm then this is the last Friday of the month. The same can be done with Sundays. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Phillip -Original Message- From: Burak Demircan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 4:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: last sunday of the month How do you achieve to create a schedule for every last sunday of the month? (there could be 4 or 5 sundays??) Regards, Burak *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: LTO Bulk Reader filled....
When I tried the remove=untileefull clause (vers 3.7.2), it then asked me to respond to each tape with a reply. If I have to respond to each tape, I might as well do it the old way and remove them when I count to ten. I want it to take them out and not ask me and then stop when the bulk area is full. Has this changed since v 3.7.2 to work correctly (or what I think is correctly)? -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: PAC Brion Arnaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO Bulk Reader filled Hi David, You should get a rid of this problem by adding remove=untileefull in your move drm statement ! Hope it helped ! Cheers. Arnaud =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Arnaud Brion, Panalpina Management Ltd., IT Group | | Viaduktstrasse 42, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel - Switzerland | | Phone: +41 61 226 19 78 / Fax: +41 61 226 17 01 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -Original Message- From: David Stabler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 16 August, 2002 14:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LTO Bulk Reader filled I was using DRM to manage a copypool, and sent my Vault tapes to the bulk reader. I wasn't paying attention at the time, but I sent more than 10 tapes. The extra tapes were dutifully marked at the Vault, and TSM lost track of them, but they were still in the LTO! A key, and a few minutes of scanning, found them, but it wasn't what I expected Is there any way in TSM to monitor, easily, how many tapes are to be ejected, compare that to what, if any, tapes are already in the bulk reader, and send only what can fit? Or, error out for trying to do too much? I have written a rather nasty shell script that does a few selects, picks a tape list, cuts off the top 10 tapes, and only sends those (one at a time, rather than with any wildcards), but I'm wondering if I'm using a sledge hammer on this finishing nail AIX 4.3.3, TSM 4.2.1.8 -drs- *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: TSM 5.1 HP-UX 11.11 Startup/Shutdown Scripts
We do it similar but add extra steps. We do the following:
1) in the stop script we do a nohup halt_script . This does the same as
you did below except we added the -noc switch on the dsmadmc line. I have
seen times when the dsmadmc line hangs and thus the script hangs. And then
shutdown can hang.
2) We sleep for a short time and then do a ps to see if TSM is still
running. If so we do a kill on it
3) If it is still not dead we do a kill -9 on it.
This way even if it is hung, we get rid of it. If you have to kill it, you
can then remove the lock file.
--
Phillip Ford
Senior Software Specialist
Corporate Computer Center
Schering-Plough Corp.
(901) 320-4462
(901) 320-4856 FAX
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From: Robin Sharpe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 8:36 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 5.1 HP-UX 11.11 Startup/Shutdown Scripts
Brian,
Here's my script, but we run TSM 4.1 (still). Is 5.1 different? You may
not want to have user ID and password in a script, which this method
requires... I can't think of any other clean way of stopping the server. We
had the rm adsmserv.lock in the startup, but removed it because it enables
a second startup to run when the server is still up which could be
REALLY bad.
What's your overall impression of running TSM on HP? We've been doing it for
almost a year now (on an L2000), and have some issues with intermittent (but
too often) hanging/freezing of TSM... can still get into HP-UX, but dsmadmc
is dysfunctional.
Robin
#!/sbin/sh
##
## File: /sbin/init.d/tsm
## Description: Startup/shutdown script for Tivoli Storage Manager server
## if [ -f /etc/rc.config.d/tsm ];then
. /etc/rc.config.d/tsm
fi
rval=2
case $1 in
start_msg) echo Starting Tivoli Storage Manager Server ;;
stop_msg) echo Shutting down Tivoli Storage Manager Server ;;
start) if [ $RUN_TSM = 1 ];then
cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin
#rm ./adsmserv.lock /dev/null 21
#/opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv -quiet
./dsmserv ./dsmserv.log
rval=$?
fi ;;
stop) dsmadmc -id=admin -pa=admin halt /dev/null 21
rval=$? ;;
*) echo usage: $0 {start|stop|start_msg|stop_msg}
rval=1 ;;
esac
exit $rval
Scott,
Brian
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Bob,
FYI...
Found out this is a bug in the system. APAR is IC34371 and should be fixed
in 5.1.5.0. Root cause is still unknown.
Regards,
Brian Scott
EDS - BUR Engineering
Enterprise Distributed Capabilities
MS 3278
Troy, MI 48098
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-Original Message-
From: Bob Booth - UIUC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM 5.1 HP-UX 11.11 Startup/Shutdown Scripts
What signal is killproc() sending to the server main thread? The server
will shutdown gracefully if it gets a SIG 15. See if you send a SIG 15 and
the lock file goes away.
Just a try.
bob
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:31:26PM -0400, Scott, Brian wrote:
Hey gang,
Does anyone have a sample startup/shutdown script for the TSM server
on
HP?
On the shutdown the bourne shell will run a killproc on dsmserv
process
but
the adsmserv.lock file under /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin doesn't get
deleted.
HP doesn't reuse the lock file when you try to restart TSM so I have
to delete it every time.
Anyone come across this on TSM 5.1?
Thanks,
Brian
Brian Scott
EDS - BUR Engineering
Enterprise Distributed Capabilities
MS 3278
Troy, MI 48098
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Re: Eternal Data retention brainstorming.....
We have only done this with our exchange servers (not the basic node but the data from the exchange TDP). On these systems we have three nodes base_node, base_nodeA, and base_nodeM. The base_node is for the operation system. The A is the current exchange node. If told to lock, we will change to base_nodeB for that point on and then C and such. The M node is for the TDP but a monthly backup which we have to keep forever (for now anyway). We put them in their own pools (we make pools to match the last letter of the name) and change node names when they have to be locked up as described above. We in effect do number (5). Note that you do not have to rebind/reset the management classes to longer retention because the node that is locked will never backup again. Thus with no backups there is no deletes or expires. Seems to work for us. It is a pain. I can not imagine if we had to do all nodes. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: bbullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Eternal Data retention brainstorming. Folks, I have a theoretical question about retaining TSM data in an unusual way. Let me explain. Lets say legal comes to you and says that we need to keep all TSM data backed up to a certain date, because of some legal investigation (NAFTA, FBI, NSA, MIB, insert your favorite govt. entity here). They want a snapshot saved of the data in TSM on that date. Anybody out there ever encounter that yet? On other backup products that are not as sophisticated as TSM, you just pull the tapes, set them aside and use new tapes. With TSM and it's database, it's not that simple. Pulling the tapes will do nothing, as the data will still expire from the database. The most obvious way to do this would be to: 1. Export the data to tapes store them in a safe location till some day. This looks like the best way on the surface, but with over 400TB of data in our TSM environment, it would take a long time to get done and cost a lot if they could not come up with a list of hosts/filespaces they are interested in. Assuming #1 is unfeasible, I'm exploring other more complex ideas. These are rough and perhaps not thought through all the way, so feel free to pick them apart. 2. Turn off expire inventory until the investigation is complete. This one is really scary as who knows how long an investigation will take, and the TSM databases and tape usage would grow very rapidly. 3. Run some 'as-yet-unknown' expire inventory option that will only expire data backed up ~since~ the date in question. 4. Make a copy of the TSM database and save it. Set the reuse delay on all the storage pools to 999, so that old data on tapes will not be overwritten. In this case, the volume of tapes would still grow (and need to perhaps be stored out side of the tape libraries), but the database would remain stable because data is still expiring on the real TSM database. To restore the data from one of those old tapes would be complex, as I would need to restore the database to a test host, connect it to a drive and pretend to be the real TSM server and restore the older data. 5. Create new domains on the TSM server (duplicates of the current domains). Move all the nodes to the new domains (using the 'update node ... -domain=..' ). Change all the retentions for data in the old domains to never expire. I'm kind of unclear on how the data would react to this. Would it be re-bound to the new management classes in the new domain? If the management classes were called the same, would the data expire anyways? Any other great ideas out there on how to accomplish this? Thanks, Ben *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Web Admin Interface - grrr
I'm another that still uses the old GUI I feel for the ones that have come after this GUI was dropped. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Shannon Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Web Admin Interface - grrr I'm another that still uses and loves the old GUI! Shannon Bach Madison Gas Electric Co. Operations Analyst - Data Center Services Office 608-252-7260 Fax 608-252-7098 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Backups of a file when it hasn't changed.
Did the permissions change on the file or owner or group? If any of these change, TSM will take a new copy of the file as if the file had changed. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Todd Lundstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 2:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backups of a file when it hasn't changed. Does anyone else see this issue? I have seen several instances where TSM backed up a file when it had not been modified in anyway. Even when you look at the restore application, there are several versions of a file, each with the same create date, the same modified date, and different backed up dates. I am curious if others, or everyone sees this happening, or if I have some setting incorrect some where. There have been no always backup backups (selective) performed, so that isn't what happened. Clueless... Todd *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Housekeeping through a TSM script
We use the following: this is the macro to update the actual macro: -- delete script reclaim_check def script reclaim_check desc='Check if space reclamation is finished' upd script reclaim_check select * from processes where process='Space Reclamation' upd script reclaim_check 'if(rc_ok) goto resch' upd script reclaim_check 'delete schedule reclaim_check t=a' upd script reclaim_check 'run set_reclaim_primary 100' upd script reclaim_check 'run set_reclaim_copy 100' upd script reclaim_check select * from script_names where name='DO_RECLAIM_STOP' upd script reclaim_check 'if(rc_ok) goto stop' upd script reclaim_check 'exit' upd script reclaim_check 'resch:' upd script reclaim_check 'delete schedule reclaim_check t=a' upd script reclaim_check define schedule reclaim_check t=a cmd='run reclaim_check' - upd script reclaim_check ' startt=now+0:15 dur=15 duru=m per=1 peru=h active=yes' upd script reclaim_check 'exit' upd script reclaim_check 'stop:' upd script reclaim_check 'rename script do_reclaim_stop do_reclaim_ok' -- This has a few points. The macro that starts reclaim does several things: 1)starts reclaim using macro set_reclam_copy 55 and set_reclaim_primary 45, 2) creates a schedule for script reclaim_check above, and 3) creates a schedule for the macro reclsim_stop (used to try and stop reclaim after so many hours, set copy and primary pools to 100 reclaim). The heart of it bolls down to the following: do a select and see if processes are still running. if they are then delete this schedule and create a new one in the future and end this macro - see first select and resch: in above macro if here then process is finished: delete this schedule and do what you must for next step which is usually start next process and create checker schedule for it. We have a complete set of these that does the daily processing. They each start a process and schedule a checker to watch for it to finish. The checker keeps scheduling itself until the process is finished. Then it runs the next step process which in turn creates a checker schedule. This continues until we do reclaim which is our last one. Thus in the above macro, you do not see the start of a new step because reclaim is our last. The processes are as follows: do backup primary disk to tape copy do backup primary tape to tape copy do backup the database do migrate do expire do reclaim They all follow the design of the above script. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Housekeeping through a TSM script Hi TSM-ers! At this moment al my maintenance processing is scheduled at specific hours. I'm thinking about creating a script which starts all maintenance, one after the other. The only problem I have is that I cannot find a way to see if reclamation has finished. Most of the administrative task have the wait=yes parameter, so the script waits until the task is finished, but since you schedule reclamation through the update stgpool command one can't use that trick here. I thought about issuing a q proc command every 10 minutes and capturing the return code 11 (no processes found) but a sleep 600 or something like that is not supported in a TSM script. Does anybody else have an idea how to do this? AIX scripts are not an option due to security reasons (userid and passwords in the script). Thanks in advance! Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. ** *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Question about using global characters in a select statement
Try like instead of =. select node_name, filespace_name from filespaces where node_name like 'AD1%' -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Neil Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 7:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about using global characters in a select statement I would like to use a global character in select statements on tsm servers to get information about groups of nodes For example if I use something like: select node_name, filespace_name from filespaces where node_name='AD1%' to get information about all nodes whose node_names begin with 'AD1' I get the following error: ANR2002E Missing closing quote character. I have tried Double quotes and used * instead of % - none of these work Any Suggestions? Thanks Neil Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Rosenberg 610-666-8936 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: End of Service for Server 4.2
Try an audit vol 000324 fix=yes and then delete vol 000324 discard=yes if it does not go to scratch on its own. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Lawrence Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: End of Service for Server 4.2 Hi: I have a volume in an odd state: VOLUME_NAME STGPOOL_NAMEACCESS PCT_UTILIZEDPCT_RECLAIM 000324 OFFSITEVOLS READWRITE 0 99.9 As one of the offsite being returned it will not return to the scratch pool. If I do a move data, the message returns ANR2209W Volume 000324 contains no data. ANS8001I Return code 11. However, if I do a del volume I get a: ANS8001I Return code 13. 07/01/02 13:55:24 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: DELETE VOLUME 000324 discard=yes 07/01/02 13:55:24 ANR2406E DELETE VOLUME: Volume 000324 still contains data. There no getting rid of it! Any suggestions? *** *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: q libv showed 'private' STATUS but blank LAST_USE
We sometime get this with a broke tape or a tape that is write locked. We usually check them out and look at them. If they look good we log their number and check them back in. We log the number to see if it happens to them again. If so we get rid of them. Just my 2 cents worth. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Seay, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 2:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: q libv showed 'private' STATUS but blank LAST_USE All you have to do is issue an update libvolume [lib] [volume] status=scratch. If it is not in use TSM will change it to scratch. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon, INC 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Joel Fuhrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: q libv showed 'private' STATUS but blank LAST_USE Check the tape out and then back in with a status=scratch. On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Chuck Lam wrote: TSM 4.1.4 running in AIX 4.3.3 After I came back from the Memorial weekend, I noticed a bunch of tapes with 'private' Status but blank Last_Use when I did a 'q libv'. 'q vol volume_name' on these tapes returned with 'NO MATCH'. There were problems with one of the tape drives over that weekend and a lot of tapes were marked as 'UNAVAILABLE' by TSM, but I was able to make them work again by modifying the access=readwrite. However, I cannot even 'q volume' this bunch of tapes, since TSM seemed to lose track of them. Can anyone help me with this problem? TIA __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Can't do reclamation
You only need a reclaim pool if you have just one drive or the number of mounts for the device class is set to one. If you have multiple drives and define the device class to use drive or more than one then you do not need to define a reclaim pool. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Gerald Wichmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't do reclamation Assuming this is the pool you're trying to reclaim, at first glance I notice it doesn't even have a reclamation pool defined. Of course it can't reclaim any tapes without a reclamation pool. Note the Reclaim Storage Pool: section which is blank. Changing the reclamation threshold will do nothing without a reclamation pool. Have you created a reclamation storage pool? Do you understand the reclamation process? I highly recommend you read the admin guide section on reclamation if you don't. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -Original Message- From: Max Kwong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 7:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't do reclamation Hi all, Thanks for all reply. Here is the details of the storage pool that can't perform reclamatoin. Volume Name Storage Device EstimatedPct Volume Pool NameClass Name Capacity Util Status (MB) --- -- - - FP0018FILE_PTPOOL 3590CLASS2 21,271.10.1Full FP0024FILE_PTPOOL 3590CLASS2 21,177.20.0Full FP0025FILE_PTPOOL 3590CLASS2 22,015.40.0Full FP0026FILE_PTPOOL 3590CLASS2 21,700.40.0Full FP0027FILE_PTPOOL 3590CLASS2 21,324.94.3Full FP0028FILE_PTPOOL 3590CLASS2 21,091.50.0Full FP0029FILE_PTPOOL 3590CLASS2 21,160.00.0Full FP0030FILE_PTPOOL 3590CLASS2 21,141.00.0Full FP0031FILE_PTPOOL 3590CLASS2 21,185.00.0Full The followin is the result of q stgp file_ptpool f=d Storage Pool Name: FILE_PTPOOL Storage Pool Type: Primary Device Class Name: 3590CLASS2 Estimated Capacity (MB): 2,051,004,907,651.1 Pct Util: 0.0 Pct Migr: 0.0 Pct Logical: 100.0 High Mig Pct: 99 Low Mig Pct: 99 Migration Delay: 0 Migration Continue: Yes Migration Processes: Next Storage Pool: Reclaim Storage Pool: Maximum Size Threshold: No Limit Access: Read/Write Description: Overflow Location: Cache Migrated Files?: Collocate?: No Reclamation Threshold: 80 Maximum Scratch Volumes Allowed: 99,999,999 Delay Period for Volume Reuse: 0 Day(s) Migration in Progress?: No Amount Migrated (MB): 0.00 Elapsed Migration Time (seconds): 0 Reclamation in Progress?: No Volume Being Migrated/Reclaimed: Last Update by (administrator): ADMIN Last Update Date/Time: 04/29/02 11:44:41 l've already tried to update thereclamation thershold to 50% but it still no reclaim process can be query. Max Gerald Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/06/2002 12:37:17 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Max LH KWONG/LCSD/HKSARG) Subject: Re: Can't do reclamation You'll need to provide more information then that.. be a lot more specific. Specifically why can't you perform reclamation? Did you configure a reclamation pool? Is it a problem in the configuration of the reclamation pool? I recommend posting some details/output about the storage pool you're trying to reclaim (q stg f=d) and the reclamation pool you have setup to do the reclamation. Also post output on any errors you're getting as to why you can't do it. The more info you provide the more likely someone can help you. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -Original Message- From: Max Kwong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't do reclamation Hi all, l have a storage pool can't peform the reclamation. It just only can use the move data command to manually reclaim the tape. How can l solve this problem? Max
Re: multipath 3575
I don't know how to go back but when we went from single path to multipath the ROM chips in the library had to be changed. So I assume that to go back you have to get single path chips. The robot should be set to a different lun but same target as a drive. What type of problem are you having? We have not had any problems with communication. I say it that way because we have had a lot of problems with tapes and drive errors but not any with communication. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Nicolas Duchene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 3:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: multipath 3575 Hello, does anybody knows how to disable multi-path feature on IBM 3575 library? I have big troubles with this feature; the id of the lib manager is the same of the drive 1, and there seems to be communications problem. I'd like to have different ids and the only way to do it is to disable multi-path. Thanks Nicolas Duchêne Telematics Services Europe Advanced Technical Services Secured Storage Services Boulevard E. Paepsemlaan , 18E 1070 Brussels Rue du Commandant Naessens, 23 4431 Loncin BELGIUM Tel: +32.2.556.27.40 +32.4.263.16.37 see us also on our Web site : see us on the web at www.telematicsandservices.com TS did open its official SAN SOLUTION CENTER in October 2000, at its laboratory in Paepsem. *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX
For scsi I do the following before starting TSM: tapeutil -f /dev/rmtxx reset tapeutil -f /dev/rmtxx unmount /dev/null 21 This resets any scsi locks and unmounts any tapes. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bill Boyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX Also check for mounted tapes Q MOUNT. TSM will not dismount the tapes before it halts. Then when you start back up you have drives with tapes in them that TSM doesn't know about. On AIX with out 3494 library, I've changed the rc.adsmserv startup script to dismount any volume from each drive using the MTLIB command before TSM starts. This way I can be sure there are not tapes left mounted from TSM comming down before. I'm not sure how you would do it with other SCSI libraries.. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerald Wichmann Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shutting down TSM on AIX Kill command is ok however keep in mind that you'll want to check what the TSM server is doing first before you do it. Make sure any backups/restores can be cancelled (and the appropriate people informed) as well as any other processes like migration and so forth. According to the TSM manual you should do: Disable sessions - prevents new clients from accessing TSM put permits existing sessions to continue Query sessions - check if any sessions are currently running Cancel session - cancel above sessions as appropriate Query process - check for any running processes Cancel process - cancel them as appropriate Then when the TSM server is quiet and you're ready to shut it down: Halt When you bring it back up use enable sessions to allow clients to access TSM again.. Are the above necessary? No not really.. doing a halt outright or sending a kill signal to the process is going to cause the TSM server to cancel everything anyways.. So if you know it's ok to do so then go for it. But I usually do a quick check and quiet the TSM server personally.. Regards, Gerald Wichmann Senior Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 (w) -Original Message- From: David E Ehresman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 7:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Shutting down TSM on AIX What is the preferred method of shutting down the TSM server on a AIX box when AIX is being rebooted? Is a kill command ok or is there a kinder way to shutdown TSM without using dsmadmc? David *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Restoring Data on A Damaged Tape
Here is a document in MSWord that I use. Hope it helps. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Al'shaebani, Bassam [mailto:Bassam.Al'[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 8:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Restoring Data on A Damaged Tape Hello TSM'rs, Does anyone know the steps in recovering data on a damaged tape? I believe, we can recover the data from our onsite tape pool, i'm just not sure of the steps. Can anyone help? Thanks, -bassam *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message. adsm_restore_a_tape_volume.doc Description: MS-Word document
Re: migration (diskpool) --- copypool then onsite pool (issues)
After running your disk to copy backup ( backup stgpool primarypool copypool), run a backup from onsite tape to copy tape (backup stgpool onsitetapepool copypool). You should do this even if you do not have any straight to tapes. What happens if a disk pool gets full and migrates or a new file will not fit on disk and goes straight to tape. This backup of onsite tape to copy tape will pick up anything missed during the disk to copy tape backup. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Pothula S Paparao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: migration (diskpool) --- copypool then onsite pool (issues) We are going to implement offsite storage management for ruby. . As I know , we are planned to backup primary storage pool to copy storage pool before migrating the data to onsite tapepool from diskpool ( BACKUP STGPOOL PRIMARYPOOL COPYPOOL) . But we have small problem , few of the db2 / domino backups directed to tape pool instead disk pool. how can i handle this issue. Thanks in advance. Regards Sreekumar P.Pothula Strategic Outsourcing IBM Global Services Notes ID : [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Voice : Office : (65) 6840 2637 Mobile : (65) 9271 0345 *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Library
We put on 18N2 and IBM said that there was a problem with it. They told us to go to 22U0 which we did. We have had no problems with it as far as I know. Don't know what type of problems you are looking for. We do not do any straight to tape backups. All our backups go to disk pools and then copy/migrate to tape. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Library Keith, May I ask why did you upgrade to 22U0? I am asking this because IBM wants us to upgrade to 22U0 as well and they have told us that it is at engineering code level so we were reluctant to go anyway. We are and have been experiencing problems that opened a critsys ticket that initiated IBM want to try 22U0. Just wondering if anyone else has tried and experiencing 22U0. Mark B. -Original Message- From: Keith Gourd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Library I have a 3583 library connected through SCSI to a 4500R IBM server. I recently updated the firmware (22U0 on the drives and V2_72_12.lif) on the drives and the library. When I finished the library would not accept commands. I can query the drives and they are on-line and I can query the library. Does anyone have any suggestion on what the problem could be? TSM only sees two of my 6 drives, I have checked my connections. Thanks, *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: cant get the backup result in activity log
This is not true. Most of our UNIX clients are run from cron and we get the session summary in the server actlog. We use this data to tell the clients if they had any failed files. Our server is at 3.7.4 and we have various clients from 3.1 to 4.2. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jane Bamberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cant get the backup result in activity log HI, How do you start your schedule? If it is cron or at - it will not show up in the server log - Only schedules initiated by the server scheduler will write messages to the server log. Hope that helps. Jane Bamberger %% Jane Bamberger IS Department Bassett Healthcare 607-547-4750 - Original Message - From: Abdulaziz Almuammar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 5:36 AM Subject: cant get the backup result in activity log Hi, i have TSM 4.1 server installed in AIX. the problem is that I have client installed in AIX and it is been backedup everyday but some times when I check the activity log in the server I cant find the backup information about that node . I only find it in the dsmsched.log in the client. Could anyone please tell me what is wrong? this is the information that I found in the client but I cant find it in the server: 04/01/02 23:08:18 Total number of objects inspected: 266,781 04/01/02 23:08:18 Total number of objects backed up: 1,391 04/01/02 23:08:18 Total number of objects updated: 0 04/01/02 23:08:18 Total number of objects rebound: 0 04/01/02 23:08:18 Total number of objects deleted: 0 04/01/02 23:08:18 Total number of objects expired: 3 04/01/02 23:08:18 Total number of objects failed: 0 04/01/02 23:08:18 Total number of bytes transferred: 14.73 GB 04/01/02 23:08:18 Data transfer time: 12,086.84 sec 04/01/02 23:08:18 Network data transfer rate: 1,278.07 KB/sec 04/01/02 23:08:18 Aggregate data transfer rate: 2,527.54 KB/sec 04/01/02 23:08:18 Objects compressed by: 0% 04/01/02 23:08:18 Elapsed processing time: 01:41:51 04/01/02 23:08:18 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 04/01/02 23:08:18 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END AIX_FMS1_SCHEDULE 04/01/02 21:00:00 04/01/02 23:08:18 Scheduled event 'AIX_FMS1_SCHEDULE' completed successfully. 04/01/02 23:08:18 Sending results for scheduled event 'AIX_FMS1_SCHEDULE'. 04/01/02 23:08:19 Session established with server TSM: AIX-RS/6000 *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Archive Backup ClientT (ABC) V3.1 (New!) for OpenVMS
I live in Memphis. Our corporate office in New Jersey uses it extensively for backing up their VMS systems. That is about all I know at their site. I have tried to evaluate it here. I have mixed results. On the whole it seemed to work very well and was easy to configure. I have two problems. The first and major one is I have a disk with zillions of little files on it. The application people are using WordPerfect (yes you heard right) and the files are keep on this disk. I hate to even do any directory searches on this disk. This disk took 15 hours to do the initial backup. I assume that a restore would take at least that long. An incremental takes about 8 hours with very few files changed. This timing is not acceptable to our users. I have talked to ABC and they want me to talk to an engineer and see if he can suggest any parameters to change. I have not had time yet to do this. My opinion is that he can not help much but I will try when I get time. My second problem is with the system disk. I had some errors about the structure on the disk. Due to the above problem I have not researched this problem. If I fix problem number one then I would tackle this problem. From the people in New Jersey, they say that the product is working great and that they have had no problems. Well that is my 2 cents worth. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Archive Backup ClientT (ABC) V3.1 (New!) for OpenVMS Is anyone using the ABC Client for VMS? I'd like any feedback as to the reliability for you. I've worked with Kelly on this and so has he. If you want my personal opinion I'd say.never mind.. Needless ot say I've been trying to get our people to use the 2 licenses we have, Version 1.2-6. I know it has worked in the past but they stopped using it because he says it works for a while then stops. He gets it fixed and it stops. At which point he gives up and says he ran out of time to look at it. That's great DR isn't it? I can't believe it's any more or less difficult to use or reliable than anything else we have, but I would like some feedback from others using it so I can get this resolved. The administrator has asked management to purchase a backup package, which they've obviously balked at since we're supposed to have one that works now. The question is why can't he get this one to work? I don't have access to it, can't answer it, and he doesn't seem to have time to check it. Don't ask me how he's going to find time to implement and care for the one he wants to purchase. Thanks for the feedback. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614 *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Procedures for TSM
Looks go except need to do a database backup. We do it at 2.5. All data in the offsite pool is also in the onsite pool. So TSM uses whatever is available. If a copy tape is still onsite it can use it. If not then the reclaim will use the onsite pool to create a new tape for the offsite pool. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joni Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Procedures for TSM I've been studying the TSM manual and changing administrative schedules by trial and error, but I just wanted to know if I have the order of procedures down right. 1. Backup disk to offsite tape pool 2. Backup onsite tape pool to offsite tape pool 3. Migration of the disk pools 4. Expire Inventory 5. Reclamation 6. Client Backups (run at night) I was also a little confused about reclamation on offsite storage pools. How can reclamation run on an offsite tape when it cannot be mounted on a tape drive? (On a daily basis I have a job that marks tapes full and offsite so that they are ejected from the silo and taken to our offsite vault) When I looked in the book it stated that reclamation for an offsite volume obtains the active files from either an onsite pool or offsite pool and then writes the files to a volume on the original copy pool. I'm trying to understand this process, but it's not making much sense to me. Any explanations? Thanks!!! Joni Moyer Associate Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] (717)975-8338 *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: password reset?
Try: update admin passexp=days If days are blank or not set (q admin) then I believe it is 30 days. If set to 0 then do not expire password. Hope this helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Alexander Lazarevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: password reset? We love the ADSM tape library. It saves our butts all the time. Only one small problem: we have 3 admin accounts set up in ADSM. Occasionally the passwords for an admin account will be reset, deleted, or something. Anyway, we can't logon to that account. It seems to happen once a year or so, maybe. So far it's never happened that all 3 admin accounts passwords got blow away at the same time. If that ever were to happen we'd be screwed - no one could logon and reset the passwords. I've looked in the GUI interface to try to see anything like, reset passwords after X days or something like, but I havn't found anything like that. Anyone know the command to turn that off, or lengthen the time of reset? Thanks in advance, Alex ------ Alex Lazarevich | Systems | Imaging Technology Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (217)244-1565 | www.itg.uiuc.edu ------ *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Tape Flow Chart Needed
This is not a flow chart but some things to do. You can query cont to see if the tape has data on it. If it doesn't then see if it is a DBbackup, look at volhistory. If it does have data, then where is it? Query libv libx volume will show if it is in a library. If yes, I then update vol xxx acc=reado and then do a move data on it to clean it off. If this works, I decide to keep it or scrap it. I usually scrap them after three problems. If it is not in the library check q drm or q volhistory or query media and try and decide what to do. If you can not find it anywhere and it has data on it then you need to declare it destroyed and do a restore and hope that all the copy tapes are good. You can use preview=yes to find which copy tapes that you will need. To try and catch this early I have scripts that do things. One reports all tapes readonly and all tapes unavailable (both in library and out). Once a week I audit a group of tapes in the library. I do the groups by the last number in the label. Thus on this Wed I do all that end in 3 and next Wed I do all that end in 4. In ten weeks I will have audited all my private data tapes in the libraries and then start over again. These audits find bad files as well as bad tapes. This way I am proactive and try and find them before a client finds them during a restore and fails. Hope this helps (this may not be the best but is how I am doing it), -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Mark Bertrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 8:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tape Flow Chart Needed Hi All, I am pretty new to TSM administration and I am still confused about finding out a tape status. We have had some tapes that have caused I/O errors in our library and tape drives. I know that some of these tapes were checked out but do not know how to ensure that they don't contain any needed data without being able to check them in due to I/O errors. I also have others that are required for a backup of the tapepool to copypool process (see below), this is my primary concern to get this resolved. 02/14/2002 08:00:08 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: BACKUP STGPOOL tapepool copypool 02/14/2002 08:00:08 ANR1229W Volume 387ACRL1 cannot be backed up - volume is offline or access mode is unavailable or destroyed. 02/14/2002 08:00:08 ANR1229W Volume 418ACRL1 cannot be backed up - volume is offline or access mode is unavailable or destroyed. Is there any flow chart or any written process that will take me through steps for a tape or volume at an unknown state to either destroyed and replace or reentry if still good but was errored due to a hardware problem, that includes moving or restoring data that was on that tape. Something like: 1) q vol 387arcl1 f=d, is tape unavailable or destroyed?, yes goto line 3, no exit 2) goto exit 3) update volume 387acrl1 access=reado 4) issue command ? ? ?, did system use tape?, yes goto line 2, no it marked it as unavailable goto line 5 5) do something else 6) do something else 7) checkin libvol lto1 387acrl1, did tape checkin?,yes goto line 8, no 8) move data, did data move? yes goto line 9, no, ??? 9) checkin libvol lto1 search=yes status=scratch checkl=barcode, did tape check in corectly?,yes goto line 2, no failed to read barcode goto line ???, no failed to checkin for other reason ??? go to line 10. 10) destroy or replace tape This was purely on example, please don't be too hard on me :) This is one of the hardest hurdles on trying to get a grasp on TSM, any help would be greatly appreciated. I have called Tivoli support and have usually received good help on this, but the process takes so long and usually something happens in between steps that takes precedence which takes me from the support call and the process gets lost then I am at an unknown tape state again. My server is Win2K TSM V. 4.1.30. Thanks in advanced, Mark Bertrand *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Empty volume is not empty problem.
Try audit vol x fix=yes and then delete volume xx discard=yes Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Alan Davenport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Empty volume is not empty problem. Hello *SM'ers. I have an odd problem. I have a volume that shows as full but is 0% utilized and has 100% reclaimable space. Audit volume states missing or incorrect information detected. Query content shows no content, move data says volume is empty. Delete volume says the tape still contains data. I'm at a loss as to how to proceed. Does anyone have any advice for me? We are running TSM 4.1.0.0 on OS390. Look below for actlog displays on the issue: Date/TimeMessage -- 01/28/2002 14:58:40 ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: AUDIT VOLUME 201221 01/28/2002 14:58:40 ANR1199I Removable volume 201221 is required for audit process. 01/28/2002 14:58:40 ANR5216I CARTRIDGE 201221 is expected to be mounted (R/O). 01/28/2002 14:58:40 ANR2333W Missing or incorrect information detected by AUDIT VOLUME for volume 201221. 01/28/2002 14:59:41 ANR2017I Administrator DVNPORT issued command: QUERY VOLUME 201221 f=d Volume Name: 201221 Storage Pool Name: COPYVAULT Device Class Name: CARTVAULT Estimated Capacity (MB): 1,639.2 Pct Util: 0.0 Volume Status: Full Access: Read/Write Pct. Reclaimable Space: 100.0 Scratch Volume?: Yes In Error State?: No Number of Writable Sides: 1 Number of Times Mounted: 11 Write Pass Number: 1 Approx. Date Last Written: 01/23/2001 12:45:47 Approx. Date Last Read: 01/19/2001 14:15:02 Date Became Pending: Number of Write Errors: 0 Number of Read Errors: 0 Volume Location: Last Update by (administrator): SERVER_CONSOLE Last Update Date/Time: 01/28/2002 14:58:37 01/28/2002 15:00:06 ANR2017I Administrator DVNPORT issued command: DELETE VOLUME 201221 discard=yes 01/28/2002 15:00:07 ANR2406E DELETE VOLUME: Volume 201221 still contains data. 01/28/2002 15:00:39 ANR2017I Administrator DVNPORT issued command: QUERY CONTENT 201221 01/28/2002 15:00:39 ANR2034E QUERY CONTENT: No match found using this criteria. 01/28/2002 15:01:14 ANR2017I Administrator DVNPORT issued command: MOVE DATA 201221 01/28/2002 15:01:14 ANR2232W This command will move all of the data stored on volume 201221 to other volumes within the same storage pool; the data will be inaccessible to users until the operation completes. 01/28/2002 15:01:15 ANR2017I Administrator DVNPORT issued command: MOVE DATA 201221 01/28/2002 15:01:15 ANR2209W Volume 201221 contains no data. Alan Davenport Senior Storage Administrator Selective Insurance [EMAIL PROTECTED] (973) 948-1306 *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Software/Hardware compression?
We have some very large oracle databases. Most of these compress very well. We did test with and without client compression. The rule we used for best is the total elapsed time. These were going to disk pools. We always got better results with client compression than without. As an added benefit, our disk pools could be smaller and there was less bandwidth taken up on our network. Sounds like a win,win,win for us. My two cents worth -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kelly Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 7:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software/Hardware compression? One of the reason folks consider compression is to reduce backup times on the client side. However, I have never seen a case where compressing on the client reduced the backup time. Never. Always longer. Always. I concur with Wanda's assessment: if you need the space in the disk pool, then perhaps compress (this is also handled automatically by migration so who cares!). Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Software/Hardware compression? It's not that bad, and not that big a deal. If you look around, you can find individual files that will expand due to compressing a second time (and it doesn't matter whether it's hardware or software compression the second time). But I've done testing with 3490 9840 technology, and if you are backing up a lot of generic systems like Windows and Unix file servers and print servers, overall I wouldn't worry about it. You won't get much ADDITIONAL compression the second time; probably 5-10% at most, but overall it's not likely to hurt you either. If you are backing up a system that contains a large application of MOSTLY compressed files (say a web server that stores zillions of compressed graphics files) you might have reason to be concerned and do some testing on that system before turning on TSM software compression. In general: TSM software compression will slow down the throughput for Backup and Restore on the client end. If you have LOTS of clients, so you need to save space in your disk pool, then use compression on the client. If you are sending over a slow link, then use compression on the client. If you have enough space in your disk pool and no bottleneck in your network, don't use compression on the client. If you have a client with an unusual application that has much pre-compressed data, test before you decide. -Original Message- From: Jason Stoessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Software/Hardware compression? Hi All, I know in other products that you can not run software compression and hardware compression concurrently. I have been told that it results in the files reverting to an almost uncompressed state. What I need is to know if the same applies to TSM. My company are thinking of purchasing TSM so if anyone knows of an official statement from IBM/Tivoli that I can be referred to that would be appreciated. The software platform will be Solaris and the autochanger is an STK L700 with 9840 fibre drives TSM 4.2.1.7. Jason Stoessler Guardian iT *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Help with scheduling
You did not say what type of system the client is. This was easy on our unix boxes. The dsm.sys file is made to be in stanza format and thus we use two different client nodes. One for the system and one for Oracle. Since these are treated as two separate nodes to TSM, they do not get in each others way. They both have their own dsm.opt file which calls out different stanzas in the dsm.sys file and different includes/excludes. The system one excludes the oracle databases. The oracle one uses domain statements and includes to get just the database files. Pre and post commands are used to shutdown the database and start it back. We run these from cron of unix. With proper scripting and environmental variables one should be able to do this with windows also. Some of the latest versions of TSM for NT and W2K allow for more than one scheduler to run and depict different dsm.opt files. This is how we handle it. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tony Sinclair [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 1:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help with scheduling I would like some input from the group on how I could accomplish the following with the least amount of user intervention/maintenance. The following is my dilemma: There are two sets of backups on the client server. One is the system backup and the other is the database backup (not yet implemented). The system backup needs to exclude the Oracle database data files. Since this backup is done when the database is open, there is no point in backing up these files because they're useless in a restore/recovery situation. The attached file is a list of files that need to be excluded from the system backup. The database backup needs to be run on Sunday's, starting around 11:00 am. It needs to exclude the files backed up in the system backup. This backup needs to be done when the database is in a shutdown state. The file in /oradata/jobs/bkup/scripts/tsm/backup2.cmd(which is executed via the OPTION section on the schedule) is set up to include all the appropriate files. Now since the TSM client uses the same DSM.SYS file how can I resolve this dilemma? How can I keep the DSMSCHED.LOG's seperate? Or how would you handle this situation? Tony Sinclair TSM ADMIN/STOR. Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] === IMPORTANT NOTICE: This communication, including any attachment, contains information that may be confidential or privileged, and is intended solely for the entity or individual to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this email, including any attachment, is intended to be a legally binding signature. *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: include/exclude list
We do this by declaring two separate nodes on the TRU64 systems. The base node (base) is for the OS and all database files are excluded. We do backup the redologs under base but use a different management class so that we do not keep them as long. On the weekend we do our cold backups of just the data base files with Oracle down using the node name, base_cold. In the dsm.opt for base_cold we use domain statements so that we do not go over the files systems that are not DB file systems. This has worked very well for us in the past. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: include/exclude list Will someone please explain the pitfalls of changing the include/exclude list as it relates to this issue. We have a server that is running Oracle. There is no TDP for True64 so we're stuck with what we have, the client. Backing up open Oracle files is a waste of time because we know from testing restores they are no good. I've suggested to the admins to exclude those open files from nightly backups because of this. We're talking about 60-70GB. This times 21, the number of versions they have for me is a lot of space. I'd like to know if my understanding is correct. If a file is not in the exclude list then it's backed up, that's an easy one. If it's changed nightly and been backed up for 3 weeks I have 21 copies. If I now exclude the file it's not backed up any longer, however what happens to the 21 copies I have in place? Are they all expired immediately except the last one and removed from the system? The problem is we would be stopping the database on weekends and getting good backups. If editing the exclude list would force the good copies to go away then we could not live with that. If there is a way to exclude them some days and then include them other days and still keep 21 good copies then would someone please help me to accomplish this. I'm to the point I can use all the free space I can, got about 20 clients that need backups but I don't have the space yet. Thanks for the help. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614 *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Delay on script
Off the top of my head, have the first script submit another script that does the checkout. Submit this script to run x minutes in the future. This is a kluge but should work. I don't know of any way to delay in TSM scripts. Hope this helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Robert Ouzen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 2:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Delay on script Hi I wrote a script to make a Database Snapshot (with wait=yes) and a checkout of this tape. My problem is the command checkout run before the tape is dismount. Is it a delay command I can use in my script or an other idea T.I.A Regards Robert Ouzen E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Password Expiration
You have to set the password expire period to 0 days (that is zero) (use update node passe=0 and update admin passe=0). The default is blank and goes to 90 days or 60 I don't remember. I set this on the node and administrative client for the node. Hope this helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Selva, Perpetua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 11:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Password Expiration Does anyone have an idea why it keeps expiring on the clients? we do have passwordaccess generate within the dsm.opt file too any ideas? *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Server out of data storage space
We had this problem with disk cashing on. When the disk pool was full of old data. Enough was cleaned for the estimated size. Then the client sent a larger file (usually compressing a compressed file) and it would fail for not enough space. We turned disk caching off and the problem never occurred again. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jorge Rodriguez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 10:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server out of data storage space It4s possible that the storage pool reached its maximun capacity while the backup was running and failed, and after this the expiration process began. It can be the reason witch the storage pool is not full. Jorge Rodriguez Caracas - Venezuela From: Andrew Raibeck Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Server out of data storage space Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:31:42 -0700 Does the dsmerror.log file have the error message? If so, it should also have an accompanying message indicating which file failed. Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence. Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager 10/03/2001 07:11 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Server out of data storage space Hello all, This morning I noticed a node still in session with the server, which just finished after 9 hours. My first thought is that the switch setting has changed because the NIC is still set to 100/Full. I need to have someone check that, but I also found this. A messag in the client log as follows: 10/03/2001 00:34:27 ANS1311E Server out of data storage space. The log on the server has this message: 10/03/01 00:28:06 ANR0534W Transaction failed for session 352 for node CP-ITS-DOMAPP01 (WinNT) - size estimate exceeded and server is unable to obtain additional space in storage pool NOTES_DPOOL. The disk pool is not full, not even close. And let's make things clear up front, NOTHING has changed on the client or server. I do see the client is still at a lower level version of 3.1.0.7. I know this is not a supported client, and I have told them to upgrade, obviously with no luck so far. The server by the way is AIX 4.3.3 TSM 4.1.2. Has anyone any experience with this. The disk pool is set to overflow to tape when files are larger than 4GB. No tape mounts were noted. This has worked fine since the server was brought online a few years ago. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (888) 997-9614 _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_itl_EN.asp *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Management class and TDP for Oracle with RMAN
I had a problem like this and it was because the management class name was
too long. I don't remember what version or *sm I ran into it with but I
shortened all my management classes to 10 character. I found this on a
class called performance which I shortened to performanc.
Hope this helps
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Phillip Ford
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Schering-Plough Corp.
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From: De Blas Bellido, Vicente [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 12:15 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Management class and TDP for Oracle with RMAN
Hello Thiha.
Thanks for your help.
I'm still stuck with this issue. I have followed your instructions but it
doesn't work. Whenever I start a script to backup the archivelog files, it
keeps going to the default mgmt class.
These are my configuration files:
TDPO.CONF
DSMI_ORC_CONFIG /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/dsm.opt
DSMI_LOG/usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/dsierror.log
TDPO_NODE dsiaja02_ora
TDPO_PSWDPATH /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle
DSM.OPT
SErvernamedsiaja04
DSM.SYS
SErvername dsiaja04
nodename dsiaja02_ora
COMMmethod TCPip
TCPPort1500
TCPServeraddress dsiaja04a
passwordaccess prompt
inclexcl /usr/tivoli/tsm/client/oracle/bin64/inclexcl
INCLEXCL
include /adsmorc/.../*.arc rman_archive_log
The script that I use is:
run{
allocate channel 'tsm0' type 'sbt_tape';
sql alter system archive log current ;
backup archivelog all format '%d_arch_%U' delete input;
}
Is there anything wrong?
Thank you for your cooperation !!
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-Mensaje original-
De: Thiha Than [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Enviado el: viernes, 14 de septiembre de 2001 18:21
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asunto: Management class and TDP for Oracle with RMAN
hi,
You can use 'include' option to bind with different management class. It
is documented on page 36 of the user manual. But you will have to do a
little bit differently than what is documented.
I assume that you are using different domain for your TDPO backups. Let's
say your default mgmt class's storage pool is pointing to disk pool. So
you don't have to do anything for your database backups. As for the
archive log file, let's say you have the pattern log_archive_format =
arch%t_%s.dbf in your init.ora file. In your include definition file, add
include /adsmorc/.../arch* tapemgmt
This will bind the archive logs to 'tapemgmt' class.
If you don't use different domain for your TDPO backups and/or mgmt class
pointing to disk pool is not the default, you can add another line in your
include definition file:
include /adsmorc/.../arch* tapemgmt
include /adsmorc/.../* diskmgmt
Make sure that these statements appear in the exact order.
regards,
Thiha
I'm trying to configure RMAN and need some help. My scenario is AIX 4.3,
Oracle 8.1.6 and TDP for Oracle 2.2 64 bits.
My question is if it is possible to have differents management classes
when
making backups with RMAN. In the TDP manual there's only reference to
TDPO_MGMT_CLASS_2, 3 and 4 but only for the duplex copy option.
I'd like to have one management class for archive log files (sending it
to
disk storage pools) and another for database files (sending it to tape
storage pools).
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Re: Creating a script
We do this all the time. The script is called migrate_check as follows: select * from processes where process=Migration if(rc_ok) goto resch delete schedule migrate_check t=a expire inv exit resch: delete schedule migrate_check t=a define schedule migrate_check t=a cmd='run migrate_check' - startt=now+0:10 dur=15 per=1 peru=h active=yes Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Robert Ouzen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 3:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creating a script Hi Try to figure how to create a script file to make this: 1. checking if migration from diskpool to tapepool is finish then running an expiration inventory, if not checking again every 10 minutes Thank you for the help . Regards Robert Ouzen E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: broken tape
Find attached the steps that I use to fix broken/damaged tapes. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: broken tape Many years back I posted a note along the lines of a poor mans guide to fixing a snapped 3590 I believe #2 pencil pair of round nose safety scissors was all that was required. I'm sure it is out at www.adsm.org still ;-) Dwight -Original Message- From: Richard Sims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 6:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: broken tape I'm going through my first experience with a broken tape and I'd like to know how to clean this up. Since the tape is broken it obviously can't be mounted to extract data. ... Geoff - The question is, How broken? With a 3590, it's usually the tape being snapped within a few inches of the leader block. The 3590 Operator Guide shows the procedure for Leader Block Replacement; but you can do it with basic office equipment. Over time, I've fixed two such tapes, by cutting back to good tape and reattaching the leader block at that point. It is of course easier if you have the Leader Block Replacement Kit: get one through your CE. Richard Sims, BU *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message. adsm_restore_a_tape_volume.doc
Re: ADSM/TSM and HACMP
We have TSM 3.7.x running in an HACMP environment (AIX 4.3.3). I don't know of any special setting we needed to set in TSM. TSM is not aware that it is part of an HACMP. We made the TSM server directory on a disk array. This lv is a resource that is switched between nodes as the TSM resource is moved. All storage areas (disk pools), db areas, and log areas are on the storage array and switched between nodes as the resource is switched. One trick that we had to do during fail-over is dismount volumes from the tape drives using tapeutil and make sure that the scsi lock is broken during fail-over. Since we have cron jobs specific for TSM, we had to make cron a resource also. If you have any specific questions you can e-mail me. It was done a couple of years ago and has been running without any major problems. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bert Moonen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ADSM/TSM and HACMP Hello guys, who can tell me where i find any information about HACMP and ADSM / TSM. Some UNIX(AIX)-guys are setting up an HACMP environment(AIX 4.3) and want to know what settings are required in ADSM or TSM. We are now running an ADSM-Server 3.1.2.90(AIX 4.3.3), in a few months we are going to upgrade to TSM 4.2.(AIX 4.3.3). Greetings, Bert Moonen Storage Management ABP Netherlands. *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: 3575 - Twintail Connect
Yes. This is how we have our three 3575s attached. You have to remove the terminator from the pci cards and terminate on the end of the twintail. Our RS6000 are H70 but I am sure that the H80 will be the same. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Gerrit Van Zyl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3575 - Twintail Connect Hi, Can one connect a 3575 Library by means of a twintail connection between two H80 servers in a HACMP setup? Does twintail support differential SCSI? Thanks and regards ~~ Gerrit van Zyl Tel: +27 11 800 7400 Fax: +27 11 802 3814 Cell: +27 82 570 4266 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.faritec.co.za http://www.faritec.co.za/ ~~ ~~ This message may contain information which is confidential, private or privileged in nature. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or file which is attached to this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, facsimile or telephone and thereafter return and/or destroy the original message. Any views of this communication are those of the sender except where the sender specifically states them to be those of Faritec (Proprietary) Limited (Faritec) and/or Midrange Distribution Services (Pty) Ltd. Please note that the recipient must scan this e-mail and any attached files for viruses and the like. While we do everything possible to protect information from viruses, Faritec accepts no liability of whatever nature for any loss, liability, damage or expense resulting directly or indirectly from the access and/or downloading of any files which are attached to this e-mail message. *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Magstar 3570
You could logically divide up the client system in to two. Register two nodes with *SM. Make two opt file sets (includes/excludes, pre and posts, and proper stanzas in sys file) with proper domains and excludes/includes (one for first half and one for the other). These should be able to run at the same time as long as the client has enough horsepower. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bill Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Magstar 3570 Hello *SMers, Here is a situation that we are trying to look at to hopefully cut down our archive time. I was wondering if any of you have an idea if it would be possible. Currently we are running TSM 4.1.2.0 on an AIX 4.3.3.0 We run a nightly archive of 70 GB that is taking just over 8 hours uncompressed. In our Magstar 3570 we have two different tape drives. My question follows: Is it possible to be running two different archives at the same time to cut down the processing time? If it is possible how would you go at it? I know I see allot of *SMers talking about backup clients at the same time, but the information we back up comes off of one RS/6000 AIX server.Is it possible to be running two sessions off the same machine at the same time? Any help would be grateful. Thanks in Advance, Bill Wheeler AIX Administrator La-Z-Boy Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Redirecting Output In Scripts
This is from memory but this has been asked before. As I remember ( and it is going fast) you need to remove the spaces around the . Or maybe after the . Sorry that I don't remember more. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Robin Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 6:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Redirecting Output In Scripts I am having a bit of bother routing output from a script to a file in an AIX environment. (I am fairly new to AIX having been an MVS/OS390 junky for 20 odd years !) Currently we have an ADSM 3.1.2.50 (yes I know we are out of support - upgrade to TSM 4.1 pending !!) on OS390 and an AIX server at TSM 3.7.2. In the ADSM server, I can execute a SELECT command in Batch TSO Admin as follows : SELECT NODE_NAME,VOLUME_NAME FROM VOLUMEUSAGE - 'DM.PROD.ADSMP.VOLUSAGE' The output goes to the OS390 dataset as expected. However, in the TSM server on AIX, a similar command defined as a script and then run issues an ANR2907E Unexpected SQL operator token - ''. eg : select node_name, volume_name from volumeusage /adsmlogs/output.file If you run the same command in a command line admin client session (dsmadmc), the command does redirect the output okay !! How can I get the output redirected in a script ? I want to automate several scripts, redirecting the output to files which I can post-process on OS390 with SAS. Thanks Robin Lowe Senior Storage Analayst For more information on Standard Life, visit our website http://www.standardlife.com/ The Standard Life Assurance Company, Standard Life House, 30 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH1 2DH, is registered in Scotland (No SZ4) and regulated by the Personal Investment Authority. Tel: 0131 225 2552 - calls may be recorded or monitored. This confidential e-mail is for the addressee only. If received in error, do not retain/copy/disclose it without our consent and please return it to us. We virus scan all e-mails but are not responsible for any damage caused by a virus or alteration by a third party after it is sent. *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: full drives offsite pool
Sure we do it all the time. It goes Disk-OffsiteDLT Disk-OnsiteDLT Now just to catch anything that has skipped or migrated from disk do OnsiteDLT-OffsiteDLT Just make sure you use the same copytapepool for all the commands. This is how we do ours every day. You can also do it by turning on caching of the disk pools. Since we compress at the client, this can sometimes make a file fail if the disk pool is getting full. For this reason we do not use disk pool caching. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: chris harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: full drives offsite pool Hi, We run ADSM 3.1 on AIX with a StorageTek DLT cabinet w/6 drives. We're starting to run into some minor drive availability issues. I thought of a potential solution (it should at least help), but don't know how feasible it is. Here's the situation: Our backups go to disk. During the day, we migrate the data from disk to DLT tape using update stgpool backuppool where stgpool is the onsite DLT pool, and backuppool is the disk Then, we copy the data from the onsite DLT pool to the offsite DLT pool using backup stg dltops dltoffsite where dltops is one of our onsite DLT pools, and dltoffsite is the offsite DLT pool. So the data trail is: Disk-OnsiteDLT then OnsiteDLT-OffsiteDLT (which requires 3 drive mounts in a 24 hour period) Because we've got a handfull of storage pools to copy to dltoffsite, and a few other processes which go directly to tape, we've been running into drive availability issues. My question is this, is there some way to make, both, onsite and offsite copies straight from disk to tape? The new data trail would be: Disk-OnsiteDLT then Disk-OffsiteDLT (which requires 2 drive mounts in a 24 hour period) Beside using up fewer drives, it seems that the migration from disk to tape is considerably faster than the copy from tape to tape, e.g. one of our migrations is set to run 4 hours. The tape to tape copy can sometimes take 12. The one reason I can see that this would not work is in the case of restoring volumes. Does ADSM build the relational database between onsite and offsite during our copy, making the copy process necessary? or can it build the database purely by matching the data between onsite and offsite volumes? Thanks, ch __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Versioning Question
Hi Kelli - I use to live in Chesterfield County a long time ago (left in 1962), by the dam (Bolder Dam in I remember right) on the James river on Cherokee road. I wish we had that place now. In the include/exclude file you can tie a set of files/file to a management class. Each management class can have its own set of versioning criteria. You can have as many management classes as you want to deal with. Thus if you wanted to, each file of a given database can have different versioning criteria associated with it. The include/exclude would look something like this: include /database1/.../* MC1 include /database2/.../* MC2 Hope this helps: -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Kelli Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Versioning Question If I have one physical server with 2 separate databases on this one physical server, can I have two separate versioning criteria? i.e. Database 1 with 6 versions data exists, 3 data deleted, 60 day retain only and Database 2 with 10 versions data exists, 6 data deleted, 90 day retain ony version? There is a hot debate here and I would appreciate your help. Kelli Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chesterfield County, VA *** This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use, or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- please immediately and permanently delete this message.
Re: Script logic
The way we do it is to reschedule itself for ten minutes later. As follows: select * from process where process='Backup Storage Pool' if(rc_ok) goto resch delete schedule this_sched t=a now do my thing goes here exit resch: delete schedule this_sched t=a define schedule this_sched t=a cmd='run this_sched_macro' startt=now+0:10 - dur=15 duru=m per=1 peru=h active=yes exit Maybe not the best but it works. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tab Trepagnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Script logic I'm just beginning to use TSM server scripts. What is the best way to implement a while do loop? For example: While node sessions are present: sleep for 10 minutes End While Launch the next TSM process... That will allow building condition / prerequisite testing into the scripts. Thanks. Tab Trepagnier TSM Administrator Laitram Corporation *** This electronic message, including its attachments, is confidential and proprietary and is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, this message was sent to you in error and you are hereby advised that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this message or any of the information included in this message by you is unauthorized and strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply to this message and permanently delete all copies of this message and its attachments in your possession. Thank you.
Re: Archive/Management Class/Schedule
From my knowledge the include/exclude on UNIX is read from the bottom to the top. At the first match for a given file the search stops. Thus, in your example, the bottom-most entry is in control and works for backup but not during the archive (wrong management class). I would make separate include/exclude files for your 3 different runs and user the -optfile= parameter on the dsmc command line to get the proper one. This requires three stanzas in the dsm.sys file for the three *.opt files to call. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Maura Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Archive/Management Class/Schedule Good Morning, I'm new to the listserv (first posting) and am fairly new to TSM. We have TSM version 3.7 operating on an aix 4.3.3 platform. I have searched the adsm archives on problems with running archives and management classes. I think I may have confused myself more. There is one particular filesystem that I am trying to both backup and archive at different times. I run a daily backup and weekly and monthly archives on this filesystem. The filesystem is included in the exclude.fil file, actually I have it listed three times in that file, each with a different Management class associated with it. Two of the management classes only have an archive copy group in it (for my weekly/monthly archives) and the other management class has a backup copy group. I have 3 different schedules (daily, weekly, monthly) that run. The daily backup is running fine but I get error messages regarding any archive. The error message reads "Invalid Archive Copy Group". I went back and removed the archive copy groups and created backup copy groups to look like archives and placed the weekly and monthly tsm backup commands in crontab (with the desired management class name). The backup (that looks like an archive) worked. I have no idea why I can't get the real archives to work on that filesystem. I read where a file can only be bound to one management class. If this is true why did my test work when I backed up the filesystem in crontab using the new backup copy groups under the new management classes? Can I run a scheduled archive using a management class listed within the exclude file? I have read the TSM admin guide and the redbook and haven't found any data to help me out. Thanks so much. regards, Maura Adams -- Maura Adams Enterprise Computing Services Boston College [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** This electronic message, including its attachments, is confidential and proprietary and is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, this message was sent to you in error and you are hereby advised that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this message or any of the information included in this message by you is unauthorized and strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply to this message and permanently delete all copies of this message and its attachments in your possession. Thank you.
Re: Wanted: Unix client done right
We have the same message on one HP11.0 system. This is what TSM said: -- -Original Message- From: Mark Shilling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 1:48 PM To: Ford, Phillip Subject: RE: PMR 19576,998 Phillip: I have researched the aCC runtime error _main not called. I have found that this is a compiler compatibility problem between the version that development used to compile the TSM code, and the runtimes that HP has released with certain versions of HP-UX 11. The 4.1.2 client has been compiled with the compiler that is compatible with the current HP-UX 11 runtime. There is not a problem with installing the 4.1.2 client if you want to do so, or you can continue to run the current version of the code, and ignore that error. The technical explaination of the error is as follows: "The change in behavior is a result of tighter error checking by the aC++ support libarary by a direct request of a strategic partner *, and indicates a defect in the application. The support library function _main() must be called by all C++ applications to assure that static constructors and destructors are called. If main() [ie, the user-defined function main()] is compiled by aCC, this is done automatically. However, if main() is compiled by the C compiler, user code must call _main() explicitly. Your a.out indicates there are destructors to execute and it may abort anyway since the constructors were never called." Did you want to leave the pmr open for a while, or would you like me to go ahead and close it? Thanks Mark Shilling TSM L1 Support It does not seem to effect our backups and we have done restores. FYI -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Thomas Denier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 10:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wanted: Unix client done right We have a number of HP-UX 11.0 clients doing backups to a 3.7.4.0 server running under OS/390. We upgraded the software on most of these clients from 3.1.0.6 to 3.7.0.0. The clients started suffering recurrent backup failures because of a bug that results in the message "Unknown system error. Return code 195." I recently upgraded a number of these clients to 3.7.2.16, which has a fix for that bug. The newly upgraded clients are generating the message "aCC runtime: ERROR: _main() not called." when a dsmc command or a program using the TSM API interface terminates. The backups appear to be successful, but the system administrators involved are still nervous about the messages. One of them is now proposing that I install 4.1 client code. Given Tivoli's recent track record, this will probably just trade one set of annoying quirks for another, with a significant probability that the new set will do more real harm. Is there any 4.1 client level for HP-UX that is free of glaringly obvious defects? Tivoli claims that 4.1 clients are compatible with 3.7 servers. Are there any compatability issues that Tivoli is not acknowledging? *** This electronic message, including its attachments, is confidential and proprietary and is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, this message was sent to you in error and you are hereby advised that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this message or any of the information included in this message by you is unauthorized and strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply to this message and permanently delete all copies of this message and its attachments in your possession. Thank you.
Re: copy process direct from disk pool?
Yes we do this all the time. First run backup from disk to copy pool backup stg diskpool copytapepool maxpr=4 Then we do a backup of primary tape pool to same copy tape pool incase overflow of disk pool happened: backup stg tapepool copytapepool maxpr=4 Then finally we migrate the diskpool to tapepool. Note that the copytapepools must be the same pools or you will get multiple copies. Hope that helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Hagen Finley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 8:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: copy process direct from disk pool? Othonas wrote: 2) Activate your migration processes and empty yr disk pools. From 2:00-3:00 am to 4:00-5:00 am. 3) Make copies (backup) of your tape storage pools (onsite/offsite). From 4:00-06:00 am to 07:00-10:00 am. On the scheduling topic - is there a way to run the copy process from the diskpool first, and then migrate to tape - that would appear to be more efficient, but it adds some complexity to the copy process. Hagen Finley
Re: AIX question: how to display pwd at root prompt??
This is what I use:
PS1=$(uname -a):${LOGNAME}':${PWD#$HOME/}:! '
export PS1
This looks like the following:
node_name:root:/tmp:300
The 300 on the end is the number in .sh_history that the next command will
get.
Hope this helps
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Phillip Ford
Senior Software Specialist
Corporate Computer Center
Schering-Plough Corp.
(901) 320-4462
(901) 320-4856 FAX
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From: Ken Sedlacek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 1:51 PM
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Subject: AIX question: how to display "pwd" at root prompt??
This is an AIX question:
How does one set-up the root # prompt to display "pwd" (print working
directory)??
Someone out there must know this.
Using AIX 4.3.3
Ken
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Re: query backupset volumes
Because of this (we are just looking into backupsets), we have decided to use the description area to denote node name and date. Then this can be used to tie the volumes together. I could not come up with anything else yet. I will be interested in what the rest of the group has to say. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Brian T. Huntley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: query backupset volumes Hello all... Does anyone know of an easy way to find out what tape volumes make up a particular backupset, or backupsets from a particular node? So far, the only thing I've been able to come up with is: select volume_name from volhistory where command='command used to create backupset' There _must_ be an easier way to do this Any ideas? TIA! Regards, Brian +---+ | Brian T. HuntleySystems Administrator | | Campus Information Services, Clarkson University | | Ph/FAX: 315.268-6723/6570 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.clarkson.edu/cis | +---+ UNIX *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are. PGP Public Key available. finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADMIN Password Issues
In our scripts os scripts we use the following: cat /etc/adsm/adsm | read usr pw then dsmadmc -id=$usr -password=$pw q ses the file /etc/adsm/adsm is protected from access for general users. Root and one group that would know the password anyway are the only ones that can read it. That is how we do it. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Lisa Faulconer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 9:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ADMIN Password Issues We currently have our ADMIN id and password in several scripts. Our scripts perform a number of functions from redirecting output from the act log to a file (AIX) to issuing the DRM commands. The scripts are scheduled with the *SM scheduler. Macros would eliminate the need to have the id and password in a file but macros can not be scheduled with the *SM scheduler. Has anyone addressed this issue? Appreciate any suggestions. Lisa
Re: Restore
You wrote in the below command for the source -fromnode=medrs2/ora01/apps//oracle/admin/ACWT/pfile/initACWT.ora shouldn't be -fromnode=medrs2/ora01/app/oracle/admin/ACWT/pfile/initACWT.ora And the destination form command /ora01/app/oracle/admin/ACWP/pfile/initACWP.ora from below ls it should be /ora01/app/oracle/admin/ACWT/pfile/initACWP.ora The directory ...ACWP... does not exist and this is what I was referring to. Also if you gave us the command right, the source does not exist either due to the ...apps... Phillip Ford -Original Message- From: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 8:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Restore It`s there first time i checked that option only , here i am confirming again : (Source) medrs2:cd /ora01/app/oracle medrs2:ls admin jre oradata doc oraInventory product medrs2:cd admin medrs2:ls ACWT TDMSDTDMSTdummytest CCDWDTDMSPanalgen.sql logs medrs2:cd ACWT medrs2:ls adhoc archbdump cdump check create exp pfile udump medrs2:cd pfile medrs2:ls initACWT.ora initACWT.ora.012800 initACWT.sav medrs2: * (Destination) * * * * Welcome to AIX Version 4.3! * * * * * * Please see the README file in /usr/lpp/bos for information pertinent to * * this release of the AIX Operating System. * * * * * *** Last unsuccessful login: Tue Aug 29 16:08:48 EDT 2000 on /dev/pts/4 from 10.74.6 5.138 Last login: Wed Sep 6 16:33:53 EDT 2000 on /dev/pts/2 from 10.74.65.155 medrs1:cd /ora01/app/oracle/admin medrs1:ls ACWT CDWQ OEM TDMSP CCDWPDKHP TAR analgen.sql medrs1:cd ACWT medrs1:ls bdump cdump pfile udump medrs1:cd pfile medrs1:ls dsmerror.log medrs1: i want to make sure that command syntax is correct or not , ? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 09/07/2000 07:58:19 AM Please respond to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" @ X400 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400 cc: Subject: Re: Restore I believe this came up just the other day on the list. If I understand it correctly they said that /ora01/app/oracle/admin/ACWP/pfile directory must already exist on the destination side before this will work. Well that is what I remember. -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Shekhar Dhotre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Restore Hi my scenario : wants to restore a file from MEDRS2(AIX server devolopment) to MEDRS1 Aix(server production). the command i am issuing while logged in as root : MEDRS1: dsmc ret-fromd=06/06/2000 -pick -replace=no -su=yes -preserve=nobase -fromnode=medrs2/ora01/apps//oracle/admin/ACWT/pfile/initACWT.ora (source)/ora01/app/oracle/admin/ACWP/pfile/initACWP.ora (destination) the out put : Tivoli Storage Manager Command Line Backup Client Interface - Version 3, Release 7, Level 2.14 (C) Copyright IBM Corporation, 1990, 2000, All Rights Reserved. Retrieve function invoked. Node Name: MEDRS1 Session established with server TSM: AIX-RS/6000 Server Version 3, Release 7, Level 2.0 Data compression forced on by the server Server date/time: 09/06/00 17:32:55 Last access: 09/06/00 17:29:19 ANS1092E No files matching search criteria were found medrs1: i have replaced all options from date , replace=no , have not given date (point in time ) same error. where i am wrong ? and where is the command syntax you got from so that i can take a look at it.. thanks. "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" on 09/06/2000 04:14:49 PM Please respond to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us" @ X400 To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400 cc: Subject: Re: Restore You need to use the -FROMNODE option of the RETREIVE or RESTORE command. here's an example we use when restoring production archives onto our test box. dsmc ret -fromd=05/17/2000 -pick -replace=no -su=yes -preserve=nobase -fromnode=e10con1 /db/s01/oradata/finp/ /db/s01/find/ Rik Shekhar Dhotre [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/09/2000 07:30:47 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Rik Foote/WestpacTrust/NZ) Subject: Restore How do i restore a file named /ora01/app/oracle/admin/ACWT/pfile /initACWT.ora from aix Box MEdrs1 to to another BAIX Box medrs2 /ora01/apps/oracle/admin/ACWT/pfile/ i mean what is the command syntax , or where i can get some material to read abouth this restoration from one server to another or how do i see help in TSM on the same ? thanks you
Re: BACKUP STGPOOL and BACKUP DB Question
I can not say what is best but what we do. 1) backup diskpool to DLTPOOL2 2) Migrate 3) backup the tape pool to DLTPOOL2 4) Backup DB Both backups must be to the same copy tape pool. We do it in this order to keep down tape to tape operations. If no backups occur during step 1 or 2 then step 3 is do nothing. If they do occur then only the new data has to go tape to tape to be backed up. Hope this helps -- Phillip Ford Senior Software Specialist Corporate Computer Center Schering-Plough Corp. (901) 320-4462 (901) 320-4856 FAX [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Werner Nussbaumer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 9:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BACKUP STGPOOL and BACKUP DB Question Hello All I set up a storage pool DISKPOOL, a tape pool DLTPOOL1 (4 tapes) and a copypool DLTPOOL2 (4 tapes). DISKPOOL is migrated to the next pool DLTPOOL1. After that I would do a BACKUP STGPOOL DISKPOOL1 DLTPOOL2 and BACKUP STGPOOL DLTPOOL1 DLTPOOL2 and finally BACKUP DB DEVCLASS=DLTCLASS1 SCRATCH=NO TYPE=FULL VOLUMENAMES=TAPE1,TAPE2 BACKUP DB DEVCLASS=DLTCLASS2 SCRATCH=NO TYPE=FULL VOLUMENAMES=TAPE101,TAPE102 What is the best scenario to 1) Migrate 2) backup the diskpool 3) backup the tape pool 4) Backup DB 5) Create a second backup of the DB? Thanks for any information Regards Werner Nussbaumer
