Re: TS3500 firmware/hardware issues
Let us know what you find. Here's the final update, thankfully, to the problems I was having. All in all it took almost 3 weeks for them to fix this problem. With all the parts that were replaced there isn't any way for me to tell you which were actually bad, but here's the list, and this doesn't include what was replaced for the weeks leading up to this. X cable Gripper 1 The scanner X motor X motor belt What was happening was that TSM was choking because the library inventory, although fine 3 weeks ago, seemed to be out of whack so when TSM told the library to mount a tape it reported the tape was not in the library and TSM marked it as unavailable. I know that nobody had been in there to move tapes yet when I tried to run an inventory from the web GUI it would pass sometimes and fail others. The TSM audit did not turn up any changes when the inventory did complete yet processes were failing left and right because the library could not find tapes. Even after replacing these parts TSM still kept throwing errors. I was being told when I kicked off an inventory from the library web gui it immediately went to a cell where a tape 'used to be' and failed with a gripper error. What I don't know is how the inventory went after all the doors were closed while they were here. What I also found out later was that they had removed tapes from cells because they say the slots were loose and needed to be tightened and did not put them back in their original location. Not a big deal since the library is supposed to be able to inventory itself, and once complete I could run an audit from TSM. The problem is not only were they NOT telling me everything they were doing it looks like the library couldn't even perform an inventory that TSM could update from. We finally shut the library down completely on Friday afternoon and brought it back up. That's something I wanted them to do much earlier because the way things were acting it just looked like the library was totally confused. I didn't say anything till Friday because I figured since I was told they were the 'experts' I might as well let them do whatever they wanted, to a point of course. They were constantly telling everyone the problem was on my end, which I didn't believe for a minute. They kept telling me that because TSM had the wrong location for tapes that's why it was failing. After I found out they moved tapes around I agreed it 'could be' but because to me the library couldn't even inventory itself how could they expect TSM to get a good location for the tapes they moved. To go along with that NONE of the tapes that TSM was reporting missing were the ones they moved so I told them, basically, they were full of it. Anyway at the moment everything is running fine. Hopefully it will stay like that because I dread having to deal with these people again. Thanks to everyone who responded to my initial post. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
3584 error code
Believe it or not I'm still fighting the issue from last week. I am not in a place to look this up and was hoping someone who knows can tell me what the error is. From the front panel, below. I hear they are flying someone in to help but in the mean time I am trying to do what I can to verify what I can since I can't rely on them for much. If anyone has seen this please let me know. Thanks for the help. Error B382 TwoThumbs BB..
TS3500 firmware/hardware issues
I've been having numerous problems lately with our 3584 and wondered if those of you out there with one would mind sharing your firmware level. Ours is on 7270, with LTO2 drives at 73V1. I've been on this for some time and don't believe it is related to the issues we're having but you never know I guess. I believe the issues I'm having are related to the company performing maintenance these days. I say that because when IBM was on the hook I never had an issue that wasn't resolved the same day they were called and it never took more than one visit to get anything fixed, never. These guys break cables and say they didn't do it, replace drives like I've never seen before just because a tape was stuck in one, replace drives with broken drives, replaced the wrong drive, and at the moment, going on 2 weeks now, can't get the robot to work on either LPAR for more than a few minutes. I'm disgusted with the support so I'm looking for info from anyone who may have had similar robot issues in the past. It's been difficult to say the least now that I don't have a single source to troubleshoot these issues. I get these on both systems, drives go offline, paths go offline, nothing mounts, the robot can't find tapes, it can't dismount tapes from drives. Seperate control path to a completely different set of drives. I'm looking for anything anyone can pass on that I can take to these guys to see if they've though about or replaced certain parts. I can tell you one gripper went out about 3 weeks about and ever since then the library has been a mess. They've replaced grippers and other parts in the robot itself, all of which I don't have a list. When using the web GUI to run an inventory I've gotten errors, y motor won't move, x motion failure, excessive drift grippers errors when nothing was in them, accessor degraded, among other things. Bottom line to me is I never had these problems till they touched the robot and since I have no training on that unit I was wondering if anyone out there may have had some interaction with a tech that knows what he's doing that might help give some info that would help me communicate something worthwhile to these guys. Any advice, besides the obvious of get IBM to fix it, is welcome. I already tried that and didn't get anywhere. TSM errors I believe are all related to the library issue and I don't believe that either LPAR truly has an issue since they have separate hardware, paths and drives. The only unit they have in common is the robot itself. 6/29/2010 3:02:34 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:02:34 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T00560 from drive LTO_4 (/dev/rmt3) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:04:54 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:04:54 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T02343 from drive LTO_8 (/dev/rmt7) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:07:14 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:07:14 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T01268 from drive LTO_6 (/dev/rmt5) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:09:34 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:09:34 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T01037 from drive LTO_10 (/dev/rmt9) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:11:54 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:11:54 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T00458 from drive LTO_1 (/dev/rmt0) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:14:14 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:14:14 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T00543 from drive LTO_11 (/dev/rmt10) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:16:35 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:16:35 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T00881 from drive LTO_5 (/dev/rmt4) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:18:55 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:18:55 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T00560 from drive LTO_4 (/dev/rmt3) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:21:15 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:21:15 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T02343 from drive LTO_8 (/dev/rmt7) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:23:35 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:23:35 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T01268 from drive LTO_6 (/dev/rmt5) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:25:55 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:25:55 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T01037 from drive LTO_10 (/dev/rmt9) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:28:15 PM ANR8840E Unable to open device /dev/smc0 with file handle 11. 6/29/2010 3:28:15 PM ANR8469E Dismount of LTO volume T00458 from drive LTO_1 (/dev/rmt0) in library 3584LIB failed. 6/29/2010 3:30:35 PM ANR8840E Unable to open
why create a 12TB LUN
I'm guessing many of you will find this quite odd, I know I did, but I had someone come to me and say they were going to ask for a 12TB LUN and wanted to back it up. Without even mentioning the product they want to use, obviously not TSM though, and I'm not even sure it would make difference, how would you manage to get a 12TB LUN backed up daily. I would expect it to be at least 75% full if not more, and even without knowing what percentage of data changes on it, it would seem to me the request seems strange. They're thinking of getting a VTL and backing up through fiber direct, not across the network, but no idea which one or what sort of throughput to expect. Have any of you been approached with this sort of request and if so what was your response? I'm sort of dumbfounded at this point since I've not heard or seen this anywhere. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Re: why create a 12TB LUN
Yes, true in both accounts. I'm not even sure at this point how it will be presented so journaling might not be an option, unless something has changed. The way they are currently presented from the device they are using makes it impossible to use it. Restoring, and I have seen the 700GB luns take forever when someone has mistakenly blown them up here...don't ask...so I don't even want to be here if that happens. Well, actually I won't so why would I even worry. Geoff TwoThumbs BB.. - Original Message - From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wed May 26 18:06:58 2010 Subject: Re: why create a 12TB LUN Geoff, As you well know, it isn't the 12TB that's the problem: it's the 40M files they're going to put on it! Actually, I think TSM is the only thing that will be able to backup such a thing. Incremental forever is the only way. Put Journaling on and it gets done. Now, that's backup. Forget restoring it! That won't happen in any reasonable amount of time now will it? Kelly Lipp Chief Technology Officer www.storserver.com 719-266-8777 x7105 STORServer solves your data backup challenges. Once and for all. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 5:04 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] why create a 12TB LUN I'm guessing many of you will find this quite odd, I know I did, but I had someone come to me and say they were going to ask for a 12TB LUN and wanted to back it up. Without even mentioning the product they want to use, obviously not TSM though, and I'm not even sure it would make difference, how would you manage to get a 12TB LUN backed up daily. I would expect it to be at least 75% full if not more, and even without knowing what percentage of data changes on it, it would seem to me the request seems strange. They're thinking of getting a VTL and backing up through fiber direct, not across the network, but no idea which one or what sort of throughput to expect. Have any of you been approached with this sort of request and if so what was your response? I'm sort of dumbfounded at this point since I've not heard or seen this anywhere. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Re: ANR8302E I/O error
How are these drives connected? Have you done any port/cable swapping to see if the problem moves? Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 8:33 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: ANR8302E I/O error Hi list, I am getting the following error on one of my drives when performing a MOVE DATA: ANR8302E I/O error on drive DRIVE01 (MT4.0.0.3) with volume (OP=OFFL, Error Number=1, CC=0, rc = 1, KEY=05, ASC=53, ASCQ=02, SENSE=70.00.05.00.00.00.00.58.00.00.00.- 00.53.02.30.00.2C.19.00.00.00.01.32.30.30.30.32.36.4C.00- .00.00.00.00.04.00.00.00.00.04.81.1B.60.00.00.00.00.00.0- 5.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.- 00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00- .30.38.39.4C.31.31.33.39.37, Description=An undetermined error has occurred). Refer to Appendix C in the 'Messages' manual for recommended action. (SESSION: 1, PROCESS: 2) This is an IBM 3573-TL library with 2 IBM ULT3580-TD4 drives. The error occurs only on one driveproblem is I´ve changed the drives alreadyTSM is 5.5.4.0 running on a Windows box. Any help is appreciated. Mario
logpinned
For the past 2 days something has been screwing up backups by filling the log and this morning I remembered the show logpinned command and found the server that is causing it. I've cancelled the session but as far as I know am at the mercy of TSM to kill it at some point. I contacted the administrator and they shut down the services but the sessions still seem to hang out there. Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Re: logpinned
Take a look also at the 'show logpinned cancel' command if that's not what you used to cancel the session - sometimes it's helpful. If that doesn't work then halting the server will do the trick, but that's not the most tidy or convenient way... assuming you're about to run out of log and crash anyway... Yes, been there done that. It basically does a cancel se. Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Re: logpinned
From what I understand, when you cancel the session, TSM rolls back the transaction. Sometimes it's quick, sometimes it can take quite a while. but the log won't grow any more from the session while it is rolling back. It may well be that the log isn't 'supposed to grow but that isn't what I experienced. I ended up halting TSM and restarting as I did not want to take a chance that it would fill completely even though I do have headroom to extend the log further. The administrator of the server tells me he stopped all TSM services that were running but that didn't seem to cancel the sessions either, and I thought it would. If it was supposed to then I'd have to question the system he was on. Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Re: Repeat email?
Getting them all day here too. Geoff TwoThumbs BB.. - Original Message - From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thu Oct 29 19:14:02 2009 Subject: Repeat email? Is anyone else getting this email many times today about a Michael Stahlberg of IBM account being deleted? I've gotten at least a dozen times today from ADSM. It's like an AUTO reply to my message and I haven't sent any in several days. David Longo # This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain private, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. #
IBM FTP Site
Does anyone know if there has been a change to the download site or if it is just down? I can't get there from my saved links any longer. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
TSM 6.1 and the ever expanding DB
I'm finding that what I know about how the DB works in 5.5 doesn't really equal how it works in 6.1. On a Linux box I brought up to migrate clients to a 6.1 server I created a 20GB log and 100GB DB. There 'will be' about 150 nodes moved to this instance but currently about 20 are backing up. My 5.5 server, on AIX 5.3, has a 125GB DB about 50% used, a 11GB log and it backs up 500+ clients per day with no issues. Last nights backup on the new box is telling me there is no more space in the database so backups are failing. After backing up systems for 30 days? I find that way out of whack from how 5.5 works and it seems to be telling me I need more than 10 times the space to keep 6.1 up. I can't believe 20 computers have eaten up 100GB of DB space in such a short period of time. I have a case open with IBM to discuss but I'm wondering what others are finding that are using 6.1. Perhaps I'm missing something in my setup that is causing the problem (I hope) because if not I don't want to even think about how much disk I have to add to the current box so I can upgrade it and make it run with the 400+ systems that will stay on it. Anyone else seeing this or have an idea what I may have missed? Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Server LOG space exhausted starting v6.1 server
Does anyone have an idea how to resolve this other than using this solution? I don't have this ability but tho9ught there should be a way to extend the log just like in 5.5 with the server down. The problem I had is the db backup is failing and all of my attempts to fix it have led to it telling me a 'different error' so it looks like the log filled and it went down. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663context=SSGSG7dc=DB560 dc=DB520uid=swg21395698loc=en_UScs=UTF-8lang=enrss=ct663other Appreciate any help. So far IBM has only sent me the same solution and not responded to my response so I was hoping someone else had an idea. Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Re: LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning
I wanted to follow up on this thread since 'finally' the drive was replaced, for the 3rd time, and is showing online. I went over the problem with the IBM folks who used to manage things, at least they were nice enough to help me out so I could basically look at things myself and relay my thoughts (you could say displeasure and that would be putting it mildly) to these people. After talking to the guy who has been working on this it seems, as I suspected, he didn't really know what he was doing. Today the drive shows up through the TS3500 Library manager the same way as the rest. I ran cfgmgr on the AIX box and the drive shows up but it is different. rmt0 Available 0A-08-02 IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP) rmt1 Available 0F-08-02 LTO Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP) I am getting ready to redefine the drive in TSM and will see how things work but wanted to touch base here to see what others can tell me about this particular drive and what exactly drives how it is defined in AIX. By the way, the firmware is at the same level as the others, it is just the Machine Type and Model that is different. r...@cp-its-tsm1:lscfg -vl rmt0 rmt0 U7311.D20.105964B-P1-C06-T1-W500507630041F009-L0 IBM 3580 Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP) ManufacturerIBM Machine Type and Model..ULT3580-TD2 Serial Number...1110233696 Device Specific.(FW)73V1 r...@cp-its-tsm1:lscfg -vl rmt1 rmt1 U7311.D20.1054F6B-P1-C02-T1-W500507630041F005-L0 LTO Ultrium Tape Drive (FCP) ManufacturerIBM Machine Type and Model..ULTRIUM-TD2 Serial Number...1110067563 Device Specific.(FW)73V1 Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:24 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning Gill, I suspect that the ce had the drive in service mode, either to swap the drive for another one, or to run diag tests. The ce would have to take it out of service mode. This can be done from the front panel of the library. Or some cable is not plugged into the drive unit. Of course I would assume if this is the case, there are library errors generated for this. len
6.1 db backup failure
I'm looking at this wondering if there is more than one issue going on. This is a Linux box that was built using all the tools that should have, from what I've read anyway, set up all variables so as not to have issues with a DB Backup. Following the recommended steps everything seems to be configured correctly so far as I can tell. When I follow the recommendations from the ANR message manual using dsmapipw it fails the password reset with a ***Server signon failes: (61) Node id is locked from access to the server. I haven't found anything yet related to where this locked node $$_TSMDBMGR_$$ is and searching so far hasn't turned up where else to look or what command to run to unlock it. 08/27/2009 12:00:49 ANR0406I Session 4325 started for node $$_TSMDBMGR_$$ (LinuxAMD64) (Tcp/Ip localhost(45604)). (SESSION: 4325) 08/27/2009 12:00:49 ANR2987W Session ended because of machine GUID or local host IP address mismatch. (SESSION: 4325) 08/27/2009 12:00:49 ANR0430W Session 4325 for node $$_TSMDBMGR_$$ (LinuxAMD64) refused - node name is locked. (SESSION: 4325) 08/27/2009 12:00:49 ANR0403I Session 4325 ended for node $$_TSMDBMGR_$$ (LinuxAMD64). (SESSION: 4325) Would appreciate any insight from others have already gone through this while I continue to see if I can find notes elsewhere. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P 4224 Campus Pt. Ct. San Diego, CA 92121 (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Re: LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning
I've looking at the TS3500 Tape Library web console and for some reason that drive says it is offline. I recycled the drive from there but that hasn't changed anything. I don't see a selection to put this online through the TS3500 library manager or from the front panel. Is this something that is supposed to happen automatically when the drive is powered up or through some other process? I don't see how there is some function from an AIX standpoint that needs to be done but, again, having never seen this either not sure. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Len Boyle Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning If one is using the ibm 3584(aka TS3500) then the wwn does not changes on a straight up swap-out. The wwn goes with the slot in the library used to hold the tape drive and not the tape drive itself. And with lto-3 tape drives and better, Our IBM ce's have to update the new tape drive with the old tape drive's serial number as the maint contract tracks enablement by the original serial number. So neither the wwn or serial numbers change. len -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning If replacing the drive is truly a straight up swap-out, the the new drive will have a new wwn that will need to be zoned in the san switch. Then in AIX it will show up as a new rmt device. Gill, Geoffrey L. GEOFFREY.L.GILL@ To SAIC.COM ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent by: ADSM: cc Dist Stor Manager Subject ads...@vm.marist LTO drive replacement when using .EDU switch zoning 08/18/2009 07:56 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ads...@vm.marist .EDU Hi all, This situation has never happened to me before so I'm a little unsure of the steps and order to fix it. Running AIX 5.3 with a TSM instance at 5.5.1. LTO drives are zoned in through a switch to the TSM server, 2 drives to each fibre card. Support for the IBM drives was not renewed with IBM so it looks like this new group has no idea how to 'fix' drives and would rather replace them, something that 'never' happened with IBM so I'm not quite sure exactly what needs to be done to get this drive back online. I know the references in TSM need to be updated so I have removed the path and drive. When adding them back the path failed so it seems like I need to get AIX to see the new drive and not sure if I also need to do anything on the switch. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I typically have no issues so it's hard to gain and keep knowledge when 98% of the time I'm watching the system instead of doing something with it. Since I don't have a test system built similarly I can't play around and create documents to refer to when the 'what did I do when that happened' scenario comes up. Thanks for any advice you can provide. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com - The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.
LTO drive replacement when using switch zoning
Hi all, This situation has never happened to me before so I'm a little unsure of the steps and order to fix it. Running AIX 5.3 with a TSM instance at 5.5.1. LTO drives are zoned in through a switch to the TSM server, 2 drives to each fibre card. Support for the IBM drives was not renewed with IBM so it looks like this new group has no idea how to 'fix' drives and would rather replace them, something that 'never' happened with IBM so I'm not quite sure exactly what needs to be done to get this drive back online. I know the references in TSM need to be updated so I have removed the path and drive. When adding them back the path failed so it seems like I need to get AIX to see the new drive and not sure if I also need to do anything on the switch. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I typically have no issues so it's hard to gain and keep knowledge when 98% of the time I'm watching the system instead of doing something with it. Since I don't have a test system built similarly I can't play around and create documents to refer to when the 'what did I do when that happened' scenario comes up. Thanks for any advice you can provide. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
db availability for DR
I'm looking at different ways to try and get the most current db backup to a DR site by the quickest and easiest means, and hopefully on a daily basis. (might be wishful thinking) At the moment I'm not sure what sort of link we'd have for data throughput. Even if I do get something in place it would be in a testing stage to see what sort of times it would take to get it there over the wire. The distance will be significant and the db size currently is 122GB about 58% used. Currently db backups are to tape and sent offsite. I was wondering how others have attempted to keep their db backups up to date at a DR site and what sort of success you've had. What did you end up implementing and how is it working out? Thanks for any suggestions and information. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Linux - library and tape devices for TSM
Hello all, I am struggling a bit trying to find a way to see tape and library devices as easily as you can in AIX so I can add a library and drives to a TSM instance I'm trying to get up on Linux. On the Linux box I built I loaded, Redhat5, TSM 6.1.1.1 and the IBM drivers and it looks like that went ok. EMC has been little help so far and I'm quite disappointed in the knowledge transfer so far in getting this VTL up and running on TSM. We defined IBM LTO3 drives in the library on the VTL. I have looked at a few logs I've found and I think I see everything discovered as it should. /proc/scsi/scsi shows LUN's for the Library and drives on 2 seperate cards. The 2 fiber cards have the library and 10 drives on one port and the other port has 10 drives. I can't however figure out the path to these devices the same way AIX gives them to you with the lsdev command. I don't know if documentation is scarce or if I'm just looking inthe wrong places. in /dev I see some IBMtape files and a changer file but not an IBMchanger file.Maybe that's because I'm not suposed to with this scsi library but again, I can't tell. Is there anyone running Linux with a VTL or other similar library that can help me with some commands, logs to look at, library and tape path definitions or any other things to look at that might help me? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Geoff Gill
TSM 6.1
I am stumbling through an installation of 6.1 on Linux. I've gotten to a point where I can rebuild a system from scratch, using a procedure doc I created, up to and including the installation of 6.1. My next step is to try and configure it but I noticed there are already 2 patches out there for the server, 6.1.1.0 and 6.1.1.1. If anyone has installed patches on 6.1 yet can you please answer this? Is it possible to install 6.1.1.1 on top of 6.1 or must I install 6.1.1.0 first. The other question I'd throw out there is this, does anyone know if you need to go through the initial TSM setup after install before you apply any patches? Thanks for the help, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry)
VTL setups
For those with VTL's can you give me an idea of how many tape drives you have defined? I'm listening to the vendors setup ideas and it seems to me the 10 tape drives they want to define for TSM sure seems like a low number when you take into consideration all the things that need to be done and keeping in mind the disk storage pool goes away and every backup now goes to tape. I'd sure like to hear what sort of things you had to do to make things run smooth. I didn't recommend getting the one we have and certainly haven't heard anything good about it here or elsewhere. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
EMC DL3D 3000
If there is anyone using this VTL, if you don't mind would you please contact me off the list? I've got some questions for anyone with some experience with it. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
TSM6.1 on Linux
For those that tested 6.1 in a Linux environment I'm looking for any problems you had. During my testing on AIX and Windows I had failures during the installation which were always DB2 related. I'm getting ready to bring up TSM on a Linux box and am looking for your experience. This is a new installation not an upgrade. This is a test but I really want to get a working environment up as quickly and easily as possible. In the end I will blow this away and bring it up on an IBM p series box running Linux which will hopefully be just as easy but for now this is just a test on a blade I was given till the other hardware arrives. I will direct 2 LTO2 drives to this box from the 3584 along with a VTL that is coming in this week. Learning Linux from scratch so I really have no idea how these devices are even found. I have SAN disk displayed for DB and I need to figure out how to get all that set up too, unfortunately it's not something I've figured out. I can tap some other Linux resources here for help with that I hope. I'm taking notes on what I've done with specific commands since I certainly won't remember it tomorrow. I really hate asking for documents others have put together but in this case, since I'm being pressured to get this going, I certainly would appreciate anything others have put together if anyone may have something already. Thanks for any info you can provide. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: TSM6.1 on Linux
May I enquire why you'd want to replace the most robust OS on the planet (AIX) on your p series with Linux? Not that I don't like Linux, I just think AIX is superior. I've had this conversation with the folks who, I'm sure if you ask them, know better than me. There is a move to 'consolidate' everything around here with those in charge, I guess, thinking it's going to cut costs and 'make things easier'. They ask me who knows AIX in case I'm not around too. Added together both mean nothing to me since from what I've seen AIX is perfectly easy to learn by those who have been using UNIX for years. Looks to me like the maintenance cost of RedHat 5 and AIX are comparable so there isn't much savings there if any. Because linux runs on the p series they are pretty much telling me it won't be AIX. So far the learning curve for me, along with research, install failures, more research, missing packages, more research, bad documentation and more research is outweighing any reason they can come up with for wanting to go Linux. Then again, what do I know. given that I always think that the best platform to run TSM on is the one you are most familiar with, stick with AIX! Linux is great, really, but AIX is better. Agreed. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:00 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM6.1 on Linux On 7 jul 2009, at 19:34, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: For those that tested 6.1 in a Linux environment I'm looking for any problems you had. During my testing on AIX and Windows I had failures during the installation which were always DB2 related. I'm getting ready to bring up TSM on a Linux box and am looking for your experience. This is a new installation not an upgrade. This is a test but I really want to get a working environment up as quickly and easily as possible. In the end I will blow this away and bring it up on an IBM p series box running Linux which will hopefully be just as easy but for now this is just a test on a blade I was given till the other hardware arrives. I've installed 6.1 on debian and opensuse. Unfortunately, TSM 6.1 on a minimal install is untested (and not very well documented) and the deployment engine will fail in horrible ways. If you just install opensuse including a gui, java, ksh and more (select everything), it will work quite easily. One thing: Linux on x86 is only supported in 64 bit mode! Another thing, make 100% sure that you local hostname (output of hostname) is not mapped to 127.0.0.2 but to a real IP address of your server. There is some misfeature in DB2 that actually depends on real TCP/IP communications to the localhost based on the hostname (rather than 127.0.0.1). On debian I did a few tricks (bypassing the DE), and all was fine. I have a feeling that debian is a better OS for running TSM than OpenSUSE (or bypassing the DE is a good idea, take your pick ;-)). I will direct 2 LTO2 drives to this box from the 3584 along with a VTL that is coming in this week. Learning Linux from scratch so I really have no idea how these devices are even found. I have SAN disk displayed for DB and I need to figure out how to get all that set up too, unfortunately it's not something I've figured out. I can tap some other Linux resources here for help with that I hope. I'm taking notes on what I've done with specific commands since I certainly won't remember it tomorrow. I really hate asking for documents others have put together but in this case, since I'm being pressured to get this going, I certainly would appreciate anything others have put together if anyone may have something already. given that I always think that the best platform to run TSM on is the one you are most familiar with, stick with AIX! Linux is great, really, but AIX is better. Thanks for any info you can provide. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6 248 21 622
IBM hardware (Off Topic)
Hello All, Sorry for asking here but with all the folks using IBM hardware I was hoping someone might know where to find this. I have been looking for information from IBM related to hardware retirement/support or roadmap showing the same. My IBM site search so far hasn't turned up anything from 2008 or 2009 but hopefully someone on the list might know where I can find it. Thanks for the help. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
linux device drivers install
I'm not at all familiar with Linux at all and am looking for some help because so far everything I've found so far hasn't helped. Folks here want me to bring up a TSM Linux environment so I've downloaded device drivers and TSM software. The device driver readme shows the command to install the .rpm file but the files on the ftp server are .rpm.bin. I thought from what I've read that if I ran ./ibmatl.6.7.5.0.i386.rpm.bin it would result in a file with only the .rmp but a bash message says cannot execute binary file. I'm logged in as root and permissions on the file are 777. Thanks for the help. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
SANergy
Is anyone out there using SANergy in their environment? With the changes we're going through it looks like the environment, wherever it's going to be housed, is going to allow changes. I'm looking for information from anyone who is using TSM in a SAN environment instead of a segregated backup network but would like to hear arguments for or against either. I'm interested in which platform you chose, why, what sort of challenges you've had and the stability of your environment. I'm being steered towards Linux but would prefer to stick with AIX. The question is what sort of horsepower I'll need for either. The folks here want me to use an HP blade BL460c that can house lots of memory and max 8 Cores. Only 3 slots available for add-on cards, and a 10Ge port, unfortunately I have not found anything that explains the environment well enough to figure out if this will suffice. If it turns out the size of the blade allows us to build the proper size environment then I think I can convince them to purchase a similar IBM box for the same cost so I can stay with AIX. If anyone has worked with both and can give me good arguments 'for' AIX that would also be helpful. I can bring up a test environment now and move a couple of tape drives to it along with a few TB of disk space on the SAN for disk storage pools. If this works out well I'd probably move 150-200 nodes to it for backups. Hopefully some of you have something similar already in place which will provide the necessary info to help in making a good decision moving forward. Thanks for any advice you can lend. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: SANergy
without going into SANergy per se, I would suggest to you to think very carefully what problem you want to solve by using any SAN-shared filesystem. I'm not looking to solve a problem just looking for input as it relates to SANergy and setting up a new environment in a new location and only if it makes sense to do so. If I understand SANergy correctly it's a way to back up data in a SAN environment to disk pool on a SAN by keeping it off the regular network. If that is a correct assumption it is why I asked for responses to my statement about comparisons to a segregated network instead. If moving the backups to a segregated backup network would be just as fast then it seems to make sense it would be a simpler environment. LAN Free direct to tape doesn't seem to me is going to produce the same results since from what I understand you would be more limited by the number of tape drives available to the, lets say 200 nodes backing up. I'm really looking for info and recommendations since I have no problems yet. If I'm going to be able to put up a system in a new environment what would be advisable given I'm probably not going to get to purchase direct attached storage, as in a DS4800, or new tape drives, but I should be able to get SAN attached disk storage instead. Of course I would prefer to stick with AIX and keep things simple. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: SANergy
So your question (in different words) is how to keep the backup traffic off the regular network. You see 2 options: 1) a separate backup network, or 2) lanfree over the SAN. Lanfree then comes in 2 flavors of to tape (lanfree to tape) and to file volumes (lanfree via sanergy). Is this right? Yes, but keeping in mind that backup windows and restore performance is very important. I do understand there is more to performance than just this topic. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: TSM Server 5.5, AIX and xlC version
Dave, I have this version on a server I was testing 6.1 which I restored to 5.5.2 and have not seen any issues. Geoff - Original Message - From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Tue May 19 18:50:06 2009 Subject: TSM Server 5.5, AIX and xlC version I currently have TSM server 5.4.3.0 on AIX 5.3 TL8-2. Will be upgrading server to 5.5.2.0 in a few weeks. 5.5 includes, for AIX platform, xlC 8.0. My AIX already is at xlC 9.0. Install doc just says what's on CD. Can this run with xlC 9.0 or do I have to downgrade? I have a few AIX Clients with 5.5.0 and xlC 9.0 and no problem, but server is different. Thanks, David Longo # This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain private, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. #
DB2 and TSM performace comparisons
Good day all, Does anyone know if there are any docs out there that show performance comparisons for the different platforms or AIX and Linux specifically? I am not looking for info related to 6.1 just TSM in general. If anyone running on a Linux platform would like to respond with info that would also help I think. I'd be curious about db size, number of objects, expiration run time, number of nodes backing up, hardware used for disk pools and tape devices. All things I can compare to what we have. I'm also curious if IBM has a definitive answer to the question of being able to move a TSM 6.1 DB2 DB to any other platform. If not supported with the current 6.1 release will it ever be? I thought I had read at this time it was still not supported but with the implementation of DB2 I wonder if the tune is changing. Both of these questions relate to folks wanting to cut costs and move everything I've ever had on AIX to a different platform, something I'm not keen about. Thanks for any info you can provide, Oh, one more thing. If anyone is using an EMC VTL I'd like to hear what you think about it and what you looked at before making the decision to go with it. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
HP 1x8 G2 Autoloader
I use this small unit for testing TSM. It holds 8 tapes and has an LTO3 drive. I unlocked the 2 magazines and filled them with empty tapes, initially there were 3 tapes in them, so now I have 1 cleaning tape, 3 tapes already assigned in TSM and 4 new tapes. The problem I am having is labeling and checking in these new tapes. TSM does not show these tapes in the inventory but they seem to show in the library. When running the label libvol checkin command the error is ANR8314E Library LIBR1 is full. What am I missing with this library? Unfortunately the activity log was only being kept for 1 day so all of my original commands to get the first 3 tapes in TSM are nowhere to be found, although I thought I had everything documented looks like I must have missed something. Anyone using a unit similar to this or any advice? tsm: TSMTST_SERVER1show slots libr1 PVR slot information for library LIBR1. Library : LIBR1 Product Id : 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR Support module : 2 Mount count : 0 Drives : 1 Slots: 8 Changers : 1 Import/Exports : 0 Device : lb4.1.0.4 Drive 0, element 1 Changer 0, element 0 Slot 0, status Cleaner, element number 1001, barcode present, barcode value CLNU00L1, devT=ANY, mediaT=-1, elemT=ANY Slot 1, status Allocated, element number 1002, barcode present, barcode value AAA000L3, devT=ANY, mediaT=-1, elemT=ANY Slot 2, status Allocated, element number 1003, barcode present, barcode value AAA001L3, devT=ANY, mediaT=-1, elemT=ANY Slot 3, status Full, element number 1004, barcode present, barcode value AAA007L3, devT=ANY, mediaT=-1, elemT=ANY Slot 4, status Full, element number 1005, barcode present, barcode value AAA010L3, devT=ANY, mediaT=-1, elemT=ANY Slot 5, status Full, element number 1006, barcode present, barcode value AAA009L3, devT=ANY, mediaT=-1, elemT=ANY Slot 6, status Allocated, element number 1007, barcode present, barcode value AAA004L3, devT=ANY, mediaT=-1, elemT=ANY Slot 7, status Full, element number 1008, barcode present, barcode value AAA008L3, devT=ANY, mediaT=-1, elemT=ANY slot element range 1001 - 1008 Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: HP 1x8 G2 Autoloader
Look like it is time to run audit library to discover the missing tapes. AP Already tried that and it didn't do anything. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: AIX 5.5.2 client install
This makes no sense as it relates to a license. This is a client not a server so unless UNIX is different from Windows with respect to maintenance and patches you can install either maintenance OR patches on a clean system and there is nothing you need worry about. Granted I don't do a lot of UNIX builds so I could be wrong but I can tell you for Windows systems you can install a 5.5.2.0 maintenance build on a clean system or you could install a 5.5.1.2 patch build on a clean system and both will work perfectly. For AIX I have never seen this either so maybe things have changed and I just need to find the right document and start from there. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Nicholas Rodolfich Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 7:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: AIX 5.5.2 client install In my experience, the 5.5.2 kit is not a complete install kit it is only a patch or a fixpack.. You must install 5.5.0 code to get the license files. When you uninstall the old code per instructions, it leaves the configuration files in place. If you manually deleted those directories then you might have lost some of the files needed that are included in the 5.5.0 code but not the 5.5.2 fix. According ot eh doc. You can install 5.5.2 right over 5.5.0. I have done it several times and it works (Windows and AIX) good. Regards, Nicholas
AIX 5.5.2 client install
I've been rebuilding a test AIX server from tape after testing 6.1. I cleaned the server up and it is working just fine at level 5.5.1.0. I downloaded 5.5.2 client and installed it but when trying to run dsmc get the below error: ANS0101E Unable to open English message repository 'dsmclientV3.cat'. I've been looking for solutions on the web but so far haven't found anything that looks like the problem. The client I was testing with has also been removed and I made sure the directories were cleaned up before I installed 5.5.2. The files all seem to be there and there were no errors when installing so I must be missing something. Anyone else seen this with a clean 5.5.2 install? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: Has anyone tried a server upgrade from 5.5.2.1 to 6.1.0.0?
I have and it works. I did this during the beta program. You just need all the proper pieces performed in the proper order. Geoff - Original Message - From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Sun Apr 05 17:30:43 2009 Subject: Has anyone tried a server upgrade from 5.5.2.1 to 6.1.0.0? Will a server upgrade from 5.5.2.1 to 6.1.0.0 work? Just wondering because the server-upgrade directory on the storage ftp site is at 5.5.2.0 and there is no server-upgrade directory under the patches directory for 5.5.2.1. The server upgrade book states that the upgrade utility must be at the same level as the server. Joerg Pohlmann 250-245-9863
What are you using TSM and ????
About 4 years ago some people here decided to bring in Netbackup. No good reason at the time but everyone involved is making it sound as if TSM was the problem. In a meeting we had yesterday to discuss moving everything to TSM they are now making it sound like they can't get rid of it, no technical explanations of course. Some are arguing we should move the other way or that most companies use more than one system and so should we. Needless to say everyone in the room, besides me, just loves netbackup. I'd like to ask these questions to the group if you don't mind. Feel free to add whatever you like if you think there is a better question I should be asking 1. What are you using in your infrastructure besides TSM? 2. If you have more then one is it because TSM can't fit that situation? 3. Would you prefer to have one? Which one and why? I also have a separate question for those with mainframes. I have absolutely no knowledge when it comes to TSM and the mainframe and would like someone to tell me how TSM and the mainframe integrate together. Our mainframe has some sort of backup software, I assume integrated with the operating system, so back things up. I was wondering if the mainframe can back up to the TSM server or if you must run a TSM server on the mainframe and back it up locally. Thanks all, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-B1P (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: multiple schedules on one server
What I have done is create shortcuts on the desktop for this, i.e., Cluster nodes with resources that can reside on multiple nodes. The GUI shortcut, if that's what you're using, should have added the -optfile=path/info/to/dsmwhatever.opt. The name of the shortcut I use is the nodename in the .opt file. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Joe Crnjanski Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:55 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: multiple schedules on one server Sorry I didn't mentioned; it is Windows client. So I guess I can create batch file backup1.cmd and put one line inside: dsm -optfile=/location/of/dsm1.opt and than another batch file backup2.cmd with content: dsm -optfile=/location/of/dsm2.opt etc,etc It sounds like it will work. I will try and let you know. Joe Crnjanski Infinity Network Solutions Inc. Phone: 416-235-0931 x226 Fax: 416-235-0265 Web:www.infinitynetwork.com
SAP/R3 on Tru64
While working on a proposal to move SAP back to TSM I discovered nothing in our environment for SAP has changed the past 4 years. So the question is what client and TDP version is available for this platform? I'm guessing the 5.1.8 version is the best client we can do there, at least that is all I could find. Is there an R/3 TDP for Tru64 that is supported? I am also wondering if there has been any changes in the way things are configured on the server side. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Sap r/3
Does anyone know of a SAP R/3 solution for tru64 to TSM? It looks like IBM has dropped it. Thanks, Geoff
backups direct to tape
I have a question that I hope those using TSM to back up direct to tape can answer. We don't, and never have, done this here and I'm not looking to implement it either. I am really looking for information as to what happens to the backup is a tape error occurs. (I just know I'm going to get this question when the dba's who have convinced everyone netbackup and direct to tape is so great) I am interested too if the TSM agents have the ability to compensate for this compared to a standard client backup. Will the agent take this into consideration and continue the backup with a different tape or will it die? The same question applies to the standard backup. Thanks for your help. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: backups direct to tape
Thanks for the response Kelly. I actually thought it worked the way you explained but I did not want to say something without confirmation since I wasn't exactly sure. I didn't, however, know that you could write both pools at the same time. So this is just another nail I hope to put in the netbackup coffin. What I have seen with netbackup here is if a tape error occurs the backup stops, period. What I have to do now is put together a short slide show on how we will deal with moving 125 nodes to TSM and how to deal with the data in netbackup we need moved in to TSM. At this point unfortunately I doubt anyone can tell me anything about the data in netbackup. Oh sure, I can see the expiration date for tapes but people around here want to keep 'everything forever' so finding the real data we need to keep from those 3000 tapes I think is going to be challenging. The short term, 2 week and 6 month tapes, in my opinion could expire on their own since it's going to be some time before everything is moved. Having both clients on the same machine is not an issue in my opinion. It's the long term data that we need to find, the REAL long term data, and move it in to TSM. Finding it is the hard part, moving it is the easy part. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: backups direct to tape Gill, I will start by asking: What do you think happens? The cool thing about TSM is it will usually do what you think it will do. If a tape error occurs, the current transaction (whatever it happens to be) will fail. What that means will vary. In the case of a client/agent backup, a write error on a tape will cause TSM to mount another tape and restart the failed transaction. Data integrity is the hallmark of the product. Direct to tape backups are actually cool. In fact, you can write two tapes simultaneously: the onlinepool and the drpool volumes. This avoids having to migrate data from disk to tape and having to back that data up. In the case of a 500GB database that will reduce the amount of data flowing through your server from 1.5TB to 500GB. Huge savings. And the write to two tapes happens at the same speed as to one. Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 x7105 www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:28 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] backups direct to tape I have a question that I hope those using TSM to back up direct to tape can answer. We don't, and never have, done this here and I'm not looking to implement it either. I am really looking for information as to what happens to the backup is a tape error occurs. (I just know I'm going to get this question when the dba's who have convinced everyone netbackup and direct to tape is so great) I am interested too if the TSM agents have the ability to compensate for this compared to a standard client backup. Will the agent take this into consideration and continue the backup with a different tape or will it die? The same question applies to the standard backup. Thanks for your help. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Mainframe/TSM Question
I am in a fight to, what looks like, justify why we should keep TSM and not move everything to netbackup. But without going into details (very long and aggravating story in which I may have to leave and look for work elsewhere) I have a question as it relates to the mainframe. We have one here but are not using TSM on it or with it. Whatever delivered mainframe software there is, I think but could be wrong, is all they use. There are 2 3590 drives connected I believe scon, so it can do its thing. How does, if at all, TSM change the environment on the mainframe to be able to back up to LTO Drives? Is it possible or will it still need this unit in the 3494 to do its backups even with TSM? Thanks for any info you can provide. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: Mainframe/TSM Question
A better question might be: how are they justifying converting everything to netbackup? This the exact question I was going to ask when I got in this meeting, which I thought was supposed to be today but nobody has shown up yet. Instead of coming to me to talk about TSM they went to a group of people who have nothing to do with either system to tell them how great netbackup is. One exact quote is he wanted to discuss whether we (or IBM) have gotten past the limitations on selective backup and discrete backup pools and your perspective on why the DBA workforce still seems to see Netbackup as a better and more flexible system that TSM. Mind you nobody' has ever approached me with one single problem. Again the story is much longer and larger than this. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:45 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe/TSM Question
Re: Mainframe/TSM Question
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Transfer/transition netbackup data to TSM I also kept it and sent it yesterday in my response. I suspect there is a giant CYA going on because I added some other facts, which is probably why nobody has dropped by yet. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: TSM v6 -announcement
Hello, Hart, Charles A wrote: Couple folks just came back from pulse and one of the Labs was the TSM Upgrade, apparently some Beta testers are seeing a 40GB upgrade DB taking 28Hrs on avg hdw is this is true than this would be a nightmare. Can anyone comment on that ?? There are different methods to upgrade the DB. Perhaps they have not tried them all. I certainly did not see that here. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Re: TSM v6 -announcement
Is there any requirement that the 'source' database be fully audited before the upgrade? Does the upgrade db catch any 'hidden' problems in the pre V6 database, or does it just crash and burn? I have seen issues with my db upgrade but discovered they were there before the upgrade. I restored my old db and ran commands to fix the problems and at this time am trying to go through the upgrade again, but I suspect I will not see these issues now. I'm not one to speak for IBM but I would hope based on what others have seen that there would be a procedure to minimize any db issues before running the upgrade especially if the upgrade will not find them. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com [Gill, Geoffrey L.]
Transfer/transition netbackup data to TSM
Hi all, I am trying to put together an email stating all the reasons TSM is the way to go and to 'hopefully' dump our netbackup system. For those that we know will be refusing to move for one reason or another I want to be able to have answers for questions they might bring up or statements they may try to use to state why this is 'impossible'. I have a list with some thing and am trying to work out answers but would certainly love input from anyone who may have gone through this in the past. If you know of a document out there I might reference that would also help. Feel free to mention it no matter how simple you might think it is or even how irrelevant you think someone else thinks it is. We have some major changes going on here and I am trying to take advantage while the time is right to see if I can get this thing dumped before it grows any further. The folks that brought it in are gone or no longer in a position to oppose this so I'm trying to put together something that will hopefully do the trick. If you think you should reply to me personally please also feel free and I certainly appreciate the help. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: geoffrey.l.g...@saic.com
Off topic (netbackup)
Please forgive me for asking here but I have questions. In the past I thought I had seen mentioned here that there some folks were using netbackup along with tsm. We do, for unfortunate reasons, and I would like to know if there are any people still out there that might contact me off the list to discuss a few things. Our netbackup person went to greener pastures, in other words bailed, and I have been given the unenviable task of running it along with tsm. Since I was basically left out 99% of the time naturally I have some questions. I understand I can find a users group like this one but I thought I'd start here first. Thanks, Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] 858-412-9883
storserver client
We have a couple of clients using this product and the other day I'm told the backup quit working. It looks, from the message below, to be a password issue. I believe the product stores a password file, but not sure of the name, that can be deleted and the client password reset and a manual connection made to restore things. Can anyone using the product tell me if this is correct please or of there is a different way to go about it? I don't recall the initial password and my guess is since the guy who was administering it is gone there was no knowledge transfer at all. $ adsm Archive Backup Client for TSM on OpenVMS, Version V4.1.0.3 Copyright 1996-2007, Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. ABC show session %ABC-W-NOCON, cannot connect with TSM server -ABC-I-APIOUT, ANS1025E (RC137) Session rejected: Authentication failure ABC exit $ type SYS$COMMON:[ADSM]ADSM.SYS * * ADSM.SYS * * Created during ABC install at 29-APR-2003 13:34:42.73 * See ADSM_DIR:ADSM_TEMPLATE.SYS or the ABC Installation * Guide for information if you wish to modify this file. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: STORServer client
Thanks Kelly we got it working. I'm curious, and so is the new administrator, as to why this password file was missing. He doesn't believe anyone has access to delete this file and for sure he didn't, so he says, so the question is will the client software delete this file if the password expiration period has elapsed or for any other reason? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: STORServer client Geoff, Like the UNIX clients, the password is stored in a file with a .pwd extension. Ask the customer to issue the following OpenVMS command: dir adsm_dir: and look for a file with that extension. Then delete it: del adsm_dir:mumble.pwd;*. Then execute the adsm command again: adsm/pass. That will force the client to challenge the user for the correct password thus creating a new .pwd file. One might need to reset the client password on the TSM server to ensure they know what password to enter when challenged. Let me know if this doesn't work and I'll find a smart guy to help you. You can switch to private email if you would like. Thanks, Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 10:06 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] storserver client We have a couple of clients using this product and the other day I'm told the backup quit working. It looks, from the message below, to be a password issue. I believe the product stores a password file, but not sure of the name, that can be deleted and the client password reset and a manual connection made to restore things. Can anyone using the product tell me if this is correct please or of there is a different way to go about it? I don't recall the initial password and my guess is since the guy who was administering it is gone there was no knowledge transfer at all. $ adsm Archive Backup Client for TSM on OpenVMS, Version V4.1.0.3 Copyright 1996-2007, Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. ABC show session %ABC-W-NOCON, cannot connect with TSM server -ABC-I-APIOUT, ANS1025E (RC137) Session rejected: Authentication failure ABC exit $ type SYS$COMMON:[ADSM]ADSM.SYS * * ADSM.SYS * * Created during ABC install at 29-APR-2003 13:34:42.73 * See ADSM_DIR:ADSM_TEMPLATE.SYS or the ABC Installation * Guide for information if you wish to modify this file. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: STORServer client
Kelly, I just got this message from the administrator who was looking at our DR node earlier and said the password file was there. I updated the password for the node on the DR TSM Server at that site so he could connect and this is what he said: Interesting - when I logged back in to SOAK to check it out the PWD file that I saw earlier was gone - deleted. Maybe when I attempted to access the TSM server and it discovered that the password was too old or whatever the client deleted it? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: STORServer client Geoff, I obviously have no idea how the file was deleted. Hard to say. No, the client only updates the file when the server hits the password expiration date, identical to the Unix clients function. ABC didn't delete it. Thanks, Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 www.storserver.com
Re: STORServer client
From what I understand yes. Will wait to hear if backup runs. - Original Message - From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Tue Oct 07 14:31:37 2008 Subject: Re: STORServer client So, are you OK at this point? Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 2:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] STORServer client Kelly, I just got this message from the administrator who was looking at our DR node earlier and said the password file was there. I updated the password for the node on the DR TSM Server at that site so he could connect and this is what he said: Interesting - when I logged back in to SOAK to check it out the PWD file that I saw earlier was gone - deleted. Maybe when I attempted to access the TSM server and it discovered that the password was too old or whatever the client deleted it? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:57 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: STORServer client Geoff, I obviously have no idea how the file was deleted. Hard to say. No, the client only updates the file when the server hits the password expiration date, identical to the Unix clients function. ABC didn't delete it. Thanks, Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 www.storserver.com
Re: Too many dbb being kept
I also have this problem with dbsnapshots and have tried everything I know to get rid of 3 dbsnapshot tapes I have on a 5.5.1.0 system with no luck. They will just not go away. They stay in the volhist no matter what I do to try and remove them and are now 14 months old. Everything matches another system I have, same OS, same level as this one and that one works fine. They don't show in q drm, they do show in volhist and will not delete with the proper command, they do show in q libvol At this point I don't think it's me anymore. Then again... Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Too many dbb being kept Joni try Q DRM on each of those tapes. They may be in COURIERRETRIEVE status. If so, recall the ones that are offsite from the vault and run MOVE DRM to make them go scratch. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin, Sydney Australia Richard Sims wrote: Review the expiration eligibility rules as documented with the Set DRMDBBackupexpiredays command relative to the output of a Query DRMedia command. Richard Sims No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.0/1685 - Release Date: 9/22/2008 4:08 PM
Re: Upgrade from 5.3 to 5.5
Christian, I just did an upgrade on AIX and went from 5.3.x.x direct to 5.5 then patched to 5.5.1.0 with no issues. Geoff - Original Message - From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Tue Sep 16 06:24:44 2008 Subject: Upgrade from 5.3 to 5.5 Hi DSMers, I just wonder one thing. I will upgrade a TSM Server tomorrow from 5.3 to 5.5 on a Linux x84_64 system. And the steps will be that I upgrade to latest patch level on 5.3.6.3 - 5.4.1.0 - 5.4.3.2 - 5.5.0.0 - 5.5.1.0 My questions comes about to upgrade the license file. Do I really need to upgrade the license file from 5.3 - 5.4 - 5.5? Or can I do a jump direct between 5.3 - 5.5 lic? Best Regards Christian Svensson WW Support: +44-1453-84 7009 U.S. Support: +1-866-832-2267 Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: cristie.christian.svensson
EN_US vs en_US
The TSM AIX 5.5 and other versions seem to always have and upper and lower case version of the Tivoli.tsm.msg.xx_xx.devices and server files. Why is this and which isn't the 'correct' version that should be installed en_US? I'm looking at upgrading our 5.3 installation, and since it's been a while, want to double check. I see lslpp currently shows en_US versions installed and a test environment I have shows this version after upgrading to 5.5 but for whatever reason 'help' does not bring up the proper info, I get garbage on the screen instead. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RSM type Library (HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader)
From what I can tell nobody responded to this but I did manage to get it worked out. Since I am used to using IBM devices I never ran in to this and since this is an HP device in order to get it to work I needed to change the driver to point to the TSM driver instead of it using the delivered HP drivers that were installed when I set up the system. I also had to disable the Remote Storage service. Once that was changed I had to remove the library TSM initially found when it was installed and redefine the library and drive to TSM. I was then able to label and checkin tapes and migrate data and backup the db. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 7:05 PM To: Gill, Geoffrey L.; 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' Subject: RE: RSM type Library (HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader) I know it was late Friday when I sent this so probably most everyone was gone and missed it. I would certainly like to hear from anyone who might have an idea what to look at. So far everything I have looked at agrees with what I implemented but I'm still looking. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:06 PM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Subject: RSM type Library (HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader) I have a system I just received that I am going to use for testing. It is running Windows 2003 Enterprise and TSM 5.5.1.0. It has attached an HP autoloader with an LTO3 drive in it. Seems it is considered an RSM Library so dealing with tapes isn't something I know how to do yet. I have tapes in the unit and when trying to migrate data to them the autoloader does seem to load tapes but it looks like almost an immediate unload. While using the mmc I can see tapes mounted, dismounted and I have seen message in the mmc that seem to indicate the tapes are not labeled. Labeling isn't something that works and I have no idea why yet. Not sure if that is handled automatically but a manual label and checkin as scratch certainly doesn't work, at least yet, and maybe that needs modifying or just isn't supposed to work using TSM commands for this type of library. So far it has cycled through every tape mounting and dismounting. TSM commands for q dr and path show nothing and I assume it isn't supposed to with this type of library. Q pr during migration shows the process but it is waiting for a scratch tape to be mounted. Originally when I set things up in the MMC the tapes were in Unrecognized' but I moved them to 'Free' manually. The changer in TSM under Removable Storage also shows the tapes mounting and dismounting. It seems to just cycle through the tapes over and over. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. So far I have not seen much in any documentation that helps so hopefully someone out there can. The activity log shows mount failures but while watching the mmc it seems to indicate tapes are mounting. 08/22/2008 13:43:40 ANR0985I Process 15 for MIGRATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 13:43:40. (PROCESS: 15) 08/22/2008 13:43:40 ANR1002I Migration for storage pool DISKPOOL will be retried in 60 seconds. 08/22/2008 13:44:40 ANR1003I Migration retry delay ended; checking migration status for storage pool DISKPOOL. 08/22/2008 13:44:40 ANR0984I Process 16 for MIGRATION started in the BACKGROUND at 13:44:40. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:44:40 ANR1000I Migration process 16 started for storage pool DISKPOOL automatically, highMig=0, lowMig=0, duration=No. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:46:42 ANRD_3061027814 (mmsrsm.c:1335) Thread41: Mount volume failed, rc = 30(PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:46:42 ANRD Thread41 issued message from: (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANRD_2231172434 (asvolmnt.c:4003) Thread37: Unknown result code (30) from pvrOpen. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANRD Thread37 issued message from: (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANR1032W Migration process 16 terminated for storage pool DISKPOOL - internal server error detected. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANRD Thread36 issued message 1032 from: (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANR0985I Process 16 for MIGRATION running
Re: RSM type Library (HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader)
I know it was late Friday when I sent this so probably most everyone was gone and missed it. I would certainly like to hear from anyone who might have an idea what to look at. So far everything I have looked at agrees with what I implemented but I'm still looking. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:06 PM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Subject: RSM type Library (HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader) I have a system I just received that I am going to use for testing. It is running Windows 2003 Enterprise and TSM 5.5.1.0. It has attached an HP autoloader with an LTO3 drive in it. Seems it is considered an RSM Library so dealing with tapes isn't something I know how to do yet. I have tapes in the unit and when trying to migrate data to them the autoloader does seem to load tapes but it looks like almost an immediate unload. While using the mmc I can see tapes mounted, dismounted and I have seen message in the mmc that seem to indicate the tapes are not labeled. Labeling isn't something that works and I have no idea why yet. Not sure if that is handled automatically but a manual label and checkin as scratch certainly doesn't work, at least yet, and maybe that needs modifying or just isn't supposed to work using TSM commands for this type of library. So far it has cycled through every tape mounting and dismounting. TSM commands for q dr and path show nothing and I assume it isn't supposed to with this type of library. Q pr during migration shows the process but it is waiting for a scratch tape to be mounted. Originally when I set things up in the MMC the tapes were in Unrecognized' but I moved them to 'Free' manually. The changer in TSM under Removable Storage also shows the tapes mounting and dismounting. It seems to just cycle through the tapes over and over. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. So far I have not seen much in any documentation that helps so hopefully someone out there can. The activity log shows mount failures but while watching the mmc it seems to indicate tapes are mounting. 08/22/2008 13:43:40 ANR0985I Process 15 for MIGRATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 13:43:40. (PROCESS: 15) 08/22/2008 13:43:40 ANR1002I Migration for storage pool DISKPOOL will be retried in 60 seconds. 08/22/2008 13:44:40 ANR1003I Migration retry delay ended; checking migration status for storage pool DISKPOOL. 08/22/2008 13:44:40 ANR0984I Process 16 for MIGRATION started in the BACKGROUND at 13:44:40. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:44:40 ANR1000I Migration process 16 started for storage pool DISKPOOL automatically, highMig=0, lowMig=0, duration=No. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:46:42 ANRD_3061027814 (mmsrsm.c:1335) Thread41: Mount volume failed, rc = 30(PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:46:42 ANRD Thread41 issued message from: (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANRD_2231172434 (asvolmnt.c:4003) Thread37: Unknown result code (30) from pvrOpen. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANRD Thread37 issued message from: (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANR1032W Migration process 16 terminated for storage pool DISKPOOL - internal server error detected. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANRD Thread36 issued message 1032 from: (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANR0985I Process 16 for MIGRATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 13:47:24. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANR1002I Migration for storage pool DISKPOOL will be retried in 60 seconds. 08/22/2008 13:48:24 ANR1003I Migration retry delay ended; checking migration status for storage pool DISKPOOL. 08/22/2008 13:48:26 ANR0984I Process 17 for MIGRATION started in the BACKGROUND at 13:48:26. (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:48:26 ANR1000I Migration process 17 started for storage pool DISKPOOL automatically, highMig=0, lowMig=0, duration=No. (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:50:21 ANRD_3061027814 (mmsrsm.c:1335) Thread41: Mount volume failed, rc = 30(PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:50:21 ANRD Thread41 issued message from: (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:51:03
RSM type Library (HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader)
I have a system I just received that I am going to use for testing. It is running Windows 2003 Enterprise and TSM 5.5.1.0. It has attached an HP autoloader with an LTO3 drive in it. Seems it is considered an RSM Library so dealing with tapes isn't something I know how to do yet. I have tapes in the unit and when trying to migrate data to them the autoloader does seem to load tapes but it looks like almost an immediate unload. While using the mmc I can see tapes mounted, dismounted and I have seen message in the mmc that seem to indicate the tapes are not labeled. Labeling isn't something that works and I have no idea why yet. Not sure if that is handled automatically but a manual label and checkin as scratch certainly doesn't work, at least yet, and maybe that needs modifying or just isn't supposed to work using TSM commands for this type of library. So far it has cycled through every tape mounting and dismounting. TSM commands for q dr and path show nothing and I assume it isn't supposed to with this type of library. Q pr during migration shows the process but it is waiting for a scratch tape to be mounted. Originally when I set things up in the MMC the tapes were in Unrecognized' but I moved them to 'Free' manually. The changer in TSM under Removable Storage also shows the tapes mounting and dismounting. It seems to just cycle through the tapes over and over. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. So far I have not seen much in any documentation that helps so hopefully someone out there can. The activity log shows mount failures but while watching the mmc it seems to indicate tapes are mounting. 08/22/2008 13:43:40 ANR0985I Process 15 for MIGRATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 13:43:40. (PROCESS: 15) 08/22/2008 13:43:40 ANR1002I Migration for storage pool DISKPOOL will be retried in 60 seconds. 08/22/2008 13:44:40 ANR1003I Migration retry delay ended; checking migration status for storage pool DISKPOOL. 08/22/2008 13:44:40 ANR0984I Process 16 for MIGRATION started in the BACKGROUND at 13:44:40. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:44:40 ANR1000I Migration process 16 started for storage pool DISKPOOL automatically, highMig=0, lowMig=0, duration=No. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:46:42 ANRD_3061027814 (mmsrsm.c:1335) Thread41: Mount volume failed, rc = 30(PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:46:42 ANRD Thread41 issued message from: (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANRD_2231172434 (asvolmnt.c:4003) Thread37: Unknown result code (30) from pvrOpen. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANRD Thread37 issued message from: (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANR1032W Migration process 16 terminated for storage pool DISKPOOL - internal server error detected. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANRD Thread36 issued message 1032 from: (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANR0985I Process 16 for MIGRATION running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 13:47:24. (PROCESS: 16) 08/22/2008 13:47:24 ANR1002I Migration for storage pool DISKPOOL will be retried in 60 seconds. 08/22/2008 13:48:24 ANR1003I Migration retry delay ended; checking migration status for storage pool DISKPOOL. 08/22/2008 13:48:26 ANR0984I Process 17 for MIGRATION started in the BACKGROUND at 13:48:26. (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:48:26 ANR1000I Migration process 17 started for storage pool DISKPOOL automatically, highMig=0, lowMig=0, duration=No. (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:50:21 ANRD_3061027814 (mmsrsm.c:1335) Thread41: Mount volume failed, rc = 30(PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:50:21 ANRD Thread41 issued message from: (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:51:03 ANRD_2231172434 (asvolmnt.c:4003) Thread37: Unknown result code (30) from pvrOpen. (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:51:03 ANRD Thread37 issued message from: (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:51:03 ANR1032W Migration process 17 terminated for storage pool DISKPOOL - internal server error detected. (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:51:03 ANRD Thread36 issued message 1032 from: (PROCESS: 17) 08/22/2008 13:51:03 ANR0985I Process 17 for MIGRATION running in the
Re: New Tivoli Licensing Free Metric tool!
Anything 'mandatory' should be built in to the TSM product in my opinion. They already get a ton of information about the servers so how hard can it be to add cpu's to the node info. - Original Message - From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thu Aug 07 09:48:41 2008 Subject: Re: New Tivoli Licensing Free Metric tool! If this has a heavy enough footprint to not warrant running on a workstation or desktop, theres no way on earth I'd allow it on any of my servers. But didn't somebody say that they heard it was going to be mandatory? This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.
journaling
We have a server that is backing up data using an entry in the dsm.opt file, DOMAIN \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\shares1 file:///\\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\shares1 . Does anyone know if it is possible to use journaling from the server backing these up? I haven't found anything but want to make sure others haven't either. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New Tivoli Licensing Free Metric tool!
Indeed it sounds like it, but where? I don't see it on my passport advantage login? I guess I'm not entitled to use the tool that is required to keep track of my TSM licenses? Not to mention that it sure seems odd that a so called 'free tool' isn't really free. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backing up mapped drives
I was wondering if someone who might be backing up mapped drives on a particular server could weigh in on this please. We have a server, and I have not seen the setup because I have no access at this point, that I am told has mapped drives from a netapp. They want this drive backed up with TSM and I am looking to find the proper way to do this. Are either of these acceptable and if so when looking to restore data do these drives show up in the 'local' tree? DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL F: DOMAIN ALL-LOCAL \\host\d$ Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
domino backup missed
I am told that after updating the client version to 5.4.1.2 this node continues to get this message in the logs for the domino scheduler when the service is started. It immediately stops afterwards. When the administrator uses the domino GUI or client GUI he is not prompted for the password. We have reset the password on the node in TSM and removed the serviced and reinstalled it using the updated password but continue to have this same problem. Manual domino GUI backups work fine. 07/25/2008 12:53:24 Querying server for next scheduled event. 07/25/2008 12:53:24 Node Name: DOMINO 07/25/2008 12:53:24 ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt because the process is running in the background. 07/25/2008 12:53:24 ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt because the process is running in the background. 07/25/2008 12:53:24 ANS1029E Communication with the TSM server is lost. 07/25/2008 12:53:24 Scheduler has been stopped. Hopefully someone has a procedure to clear it up. I've seen a couple of posts that might do it and passed this on to the administrator, but want to throw it out there for thoughts. http://www.adsm.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4484 Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 (office) (858)412-9883 (blackberry) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Logical Volume Snapshot Agent
Client, Windows 2003 TSM 5.4.1.6
Server AIX 5.3 TSM 5.3.3.0
I asked this recently and did not see any responses so I'll try again.
This computer is a Domino server that is also running TDP. That backup
seems to be working fine, however the regular client backup fails daily.
I am getting more info as we speak but I'm told this started happening
after the server was migrated from a VM to a physical server. Seems on
VM there were other problems so it was rebuilt on a physical box.
There are a couple of different messages in the error log and I'm trying
to figure out if they are related or not, it looks like they are. The
information I am finding talks to TSM Client Open File Support backup,
and since I have no access to the server I don't know anything more than
what I have been told, which isn't much more than 'it keeps failing'.
I have not found any info specifically dealing with what I am seeing so
I'm wondering if anyone might have some ideas I can pass along to the
folks managing this box.
07/04/2008 20:52:37 ANS1228E Sending of object 'f:' failed
07/04/2008 20:52:37 ANS1378E The snapshot operation failed. The
SNAPSHOTCACHELocation does not contain enough space for this snapshot
operation.
07/04/2008 20:57:10 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'CLIENT_2000_SUN-FRI'
failed. Return code = 12.
07/06/2008 20:02:27 ANS1228E Sending of object 'c:' failed
07/06/2008 20:02:27 ANS1349E The Logical Volume Snapshot Agent could not
take a snapshot of the specified volume.
07/06/2008 20:02:54 GetRootAttrib(): for root directory
\\?\tsmlvsa_Volume{84beb4c0-2a28-11da-9509-806d6172696f}\, Win32 rc=31
07/06/2008 20:02:54 ANS1228E Sending of object '\\cp-its-domweb02\c$'
failed
07/06/2008 20:02:54 ANS4021E Error processing '\\cp-its-domweb02\c$':
file system not ready
07/06/2008 20:02:54 ANS1802E Incremental backup of
'\\cp-its-domweb02\c$' finished with 2 failure
Thanks for any insight anyone can provide.
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator
SAIC M/S-G1b
(858)826-4062
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[no subject]
I just got this today and was wondering if the errors being reported
indicate there is more than one problem with this client. The client is
running version 5.4.1.6 on Windows 2003. The entry
SNAPSHOTCACHELocation seems odd because so far the info I have found
on it refers to Windows 2000 use only. This is the first time I have run
across any of these errors so I'm a bit confused, and I'm sure since
there is not much in the way of questions it looks that way.
06/24/2008 20:38:14 ANS1228E Sending of object
'\\domweb\e$\Lotus\Domino\data\http-logs\access-log06242008.log' failed
06/24/2008 20:38:14 ANS4047E There is a read error on
'\\domweb\e$\Lotus\Domino\data\http-logs\access-log06242008.log'. The
file is skipped.
06/24/2008 20:57:44 ANS1802E Incremental backup of '\\domweb\e$'
finished with 1 failure
06/24/2008 20:57:44 ANS1802E Incremental backup of '\\domweb\e$'
finished with 1 failure
06/24/2008 21:02:23 ANS1228E Sending of object 'f:' failed
06/24/2008 21:02:23 ANS1378E The snapshot operation failed. The
SNAPSHOTCACHELocation does not contain enough space for this snapshot
operation.
06/24/2008 21:02:53 ANS1228E Sending of object 'c:' failed
06/24/2008 21:02:53 ANS1349E The Logical Volume Snapshot Agent could not
take a snapshot of the specified volume.
06/24/2008 21:03:14 ANSE ntrc.cpp(928): Received Win32 RC 31
(0x001f) from CreateFile. Error desription: A device attached to the
system is not functioning.
06/24/2008 21:03:14 ANSE ntrc.cpp(928): Received Win32 RC 31
(0x001f) from GetBackupStreamSize(): uc_CreateFile. Error
desription: A device attached to the system is not functioning.
06/24/2008 21:03:14 PrivIncrFileSpace: Received rc=653 from
fioGetDirEntries:
\\?\tsmlvsa_Volume{84beb4c0-2a28-11da-9509-806d6172696f}
06/24/2008 21:03:14 ANS1999E Incremental processing of '\\domweb\c$'
stopped.
06/24/2008 21:03:20 ANS1375E The snapshot operation failed.
06/24/2008 21:03:21 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'CLIENT_2000_SUN-FRI'
failed. Return code = 12.
06/25/2008 20:14:47 ANS1228E Sending of object 'c:' failed
06/25/2008 20:14:47 ANS1349E The Logical Volume Snapshot Agent could not
take a snapshot of the specified volume.
06/25/2008 21:20:46 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'CLIENT_2000_SUN-FRI'
failed. Return code = 12.
06/26/2008 20:08:08 ANS1228E Sending of object 'c:' failed
06/26/2008 20:08:08 ANS1349E The Logical Volume Snapshot Agent could not
take a snapshot of the specified volume.
06/26/2008 20:08:17 ANS1999E Incremental processing of '\\domweb\c$'
stopped.
06/26/2008 20:08:17 ANS1228E Sending of object 'SYSTEM
SERVICES\EVENTLOG' failed
06/26/2008 20:08:17 ANS1375E The snapshot operation failed.
06/26/2008 20:08:24 ANS1375E The snapshot operation failed.
06/26/2008 20:08:29 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'CLIENT_2000_SUN-FRI'
failed. Return code = 12.
06/27/2008 20:13:21 ANS1228E Sending of object 'c:' failed
06/27/2008 20:13:21 ANS1349E The Logical Volume Snapshot Agent could not
take a snapshot of the specified volume.
06/27/2008 20:13:26 ANS1999E Incremental processing of '\\domweb\c$'
stopped.
06/27/2008 20:13:26 ANS1228E Sending of object 'SYSTEM
SERVICES\EVENTLOG' failed
06/27/2008 20:13:26 ANS1375E The snapshot operation failed.
06/27/2008 20:13:34 ANS1375E The snapshot operation failed.
06/27/2008 20:13:36 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'CLIENT_2000_SUN-FRI'
failed. Return code = 12.
06/29/2008 20:10:30 ANS1327W The snapshot operation for 'F:' failed with
error code: 657.
06/29/2008 20:10:30 ANS1380W The snapshot operation failed. The
filesystem write activity prevented the Logical Volume Snapshot Agent
from satisfying the SNAPSHOTFSIDLEWait and SNAPSHOTFSIDLERetries
options.
06/29/2008 20:10:30 ANS1377W The client was unable to obtain a snapshot
of '\\domweb\f$'. The operation will continue without snapshot support.
06/29/2008 20:25:58 ANS1228E Sending of object 'c:' failed
06/29/2008 20:25:58 ANS1349E The Logical Volume Snapshot Agent could not
take a snapshot of the specified volume.
06/29/2008 20:26:04 ANS1375E The snapshot operation failed.
06/29/2008 20:26:05 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'CLIENT_2000_SUN-FRI'
failed. Return code = 12.
Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator
SAIC M/S-G1b
(858)826-4062
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Error 8 establishing TSM API session
We had an issue with a node and it had to be rebuilt. When they installed the client and domino tdp they used a 5.3 version they had. When they tried to restore a file the error they got indicated the tsm version used to archive the file is newer than the one they are using to restore it. They upgraded the client to 5.4.1.6 and that soled the retrieve issue but they tell me now the tdp backup is failing and when they use the client to connect they get the message Error 8 establishing TSM API session. The client message repository is corrupt or invalid. Now they tell me that they have uninstalled and reinstalled the client but still get the same message. I have tried searching the archives but from where I am connection to adsm.org is suddenly failing. I was hoping someone had some insight they could pass along. Thanks for any help you can offer. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NETAPP
I'm being told folks are setting up a VM Windows server that will have disk assigned from a netapp. I was looking for info on how TSM handles this type of setup, and since I have not even seen it here yet have no idea how the server will see it. I have also been unable so far to easily locate any documents that help so I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks for any help you can offer. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
volume checkin
I have been exporting data and importing for quite some time and not having problems today however when checking in the tapes I am seeing these errors. Has anyone seen these before? I tried with and without checkl but both fail miserably. I ran an audit of the library and tried again with the same results. CHECKIN libvol 3584lib1 search-bulk status=private checkl=barcode waittime=0 ANR0984I Process 650 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME started in the BACKGROUND at 19:29:06. ANR8422I CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Operation for library 3584LIB1 started as process 650. ANR8384E 000: Incorrect volume (T00247) inserted into library 3584LIB1. ANR8426E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME for volume SEARCH-BULK in library 3584LIB1 failed. ANR0985I Process 650 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 19:29:11. CHECKIN libvol 3584lib1 search-bulk status=private waittime=0 ANR0984I Process 651 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME started in the BACKGROUND at 19:29:49. ANR8422I CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Operation for library 3584LIB1 started as process 651. ANR8335I 000: Verifying label of LTO volume SEARCH-BULK in drive LTO_3 (/dev/rmt3). ANR8354E 000: Incorrect volume (T00247) mounted in drive LTO_3 (/dev/rmt3). ANR8426E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME for volume SEARCH-BULK in library 3584LIB1 failed. ANR0985I Process 651 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 19:30:31. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: volume checkin
As Chris Farley used to say, What an idiot! I can't believe I missed that. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: volume checkin Geoff, I see the syntax search-bulk. I think it's trying to check in a volume with that name search-bulk. Don't you mean search=bulk? Kelly Lipp CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 www.storserver.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 4:40 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] volume checkin I have been exporting data and importing for quite some time and not having problems today however when checking in the tapes I am seeing these errors. Has anyone seen these before? I tried with and without checkl but both fail miserably. I ran an audit of the library and tried again with the same results. CHECKIN libvol 3584lib1 search-bulk status=private checkl=barcode waittime=0 ANR0984I Process 650 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME started in the BACKGROUND at 19:29:06. ANR8422I CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Operation for library 3584LIB1 started as process 650. ANR8384E 000: Incorrect volume (T00247) inserted into library 3584LIB1. ANR8426E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME for volume SEARCH-BULK in library 3584LIB1 failed. ANR0985I Process 650 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 19:29:11. CHECKIN libvol 3584lib1 search-bulk status=private waittime=0 ANR0984I Process 651 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME started in the BACKGROUND at 19:29:49. ANR8422I CHECKIN LIBVOLUME: Operation for library 3584LIB1 started as process 651. ANR8335I 000: Verifying label of LTO volume SEARCH-BULK in drive LTO_3 (/dev/rmt3). ANR8354E 000: Incorrect volume (T00247) mounted in drive LTO_3 (/dev/rmt3). ANR8426E CHECKIN LIBVOLUME for volume SEARCH-BULK in library 3584LIB1 failed. ANR0985I Process 651 for CHECKIN LIBVOLUME running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 19:30:31. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Directory Structure Expires
If you don't have this command directories get bind to management class that has shortest retention time (or something like this); That's not what the manual says Joe The dirmc option specifies the management class you want to use for directories. If you do not specify this option to associate a management class with directories, the client program uses the management class in the active policy set of your policy domain with the longest retention period. It is recommended that you select a management class for individual directories that retains directories at least as long as it retains the files associated with them. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TSM Client 5.4.2.0 OS Support
I just wanted to see if anyone else had ran into a similar issue. I tried again on another Windows 2000 server... still no luck. I thought I had read somewhere that client version 5.5 was no longer going to be supported on Windows 2000. 5.4 is not supported on Windows 2000 Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TSM Client 5.4.2.0 OS Support
I believe I read somewhere that 5.4.1.6 was the last 2000 version. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Welton, Charles Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Client 5.4.2.0 OS Support Actually... we are running 5.4.1.0 client on many Windows 2000 servers, that is why I thought it was unusual for 5.4.2.0 all of a sudden not to be supported any longer. Charles Welton Sr. Systems Administrator MISD Backup and Recovery Team Sisters of Mercy Health System 3637 South Geyer Road St. Louis, MO. 63127 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 314-364-3498, Cell: 314-359-5799
Re: TSM Client 5.4.2.0 OS Support
Even though I sent out that last reply you might want to take a look at this. Who knows.. http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/84279f6ed9ffde6f8625 6ccf00653ad3/33cf4a8f5fd5a9b4862573aa00165438?OpenDocument Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Gill, Geoffrey L. Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:07 PM To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Subject: RE: TSM Client 5.4.2.0 OS Support I believe I read somewhere that 5.4.1.6 was the last 2000 version. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Welton, Charles Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM Client 5.4.2.0 OS Support Actually... we are running 5.4.1.0 client on many Windows 2000 servers, that is why I thought it was unusual for 5.4.2.0 all of a sudden not to be supported any longer. Charles Welton Sr. Systems Administrator MISD Backup and Recovery Team Sisters of Mercy Health System 3637 South Geyer Road St. Louis, MO. 63127 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 314-364-3498, Cell: 314-359-5799
Re: TSM Client 5.4.2.0 OS Support
Things do look like they have changed since I last looked. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663context=SSGSG7uid=swg21 197133loc=en_UScs=utf-8lang=en Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: co-locate by filespace
IMHO one of the things you need to consider is how long the migration processes will take. I have done that and use collocation groups already so I understand the ramifications of this, but those are not my questions. My questions are more specific to restores and was wondering if a single session with 4 drives checked to restore will mount 4 tapes immediately or will they possibly be single threaded and one drive at a time is truly what is happening. If not has anyone tested this and compared to 4 sessions restoring a single drive with each session to see if there is any difference in the amount of time it takes to restore the data? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
co-locate by filespace
I have not tested this so am wondering out loud how communications work. If 'a' server is set up to co-locate by filespace how does that affect the backup if at all. All data here goes to disk pool first so I am guessing nothing changes there and don't think there are any things I need to consider. As for the restore though. If co-located by filespace and there are 4 filespaces, each on their own set of tapes, does opening one session and clicking on all 4 filespaces to restore automatically mount the 4 tapes, or is it somehow single threaded and just does one filespace at a time? Has anyone tested to see if opening 4 separate sessions make any difference how quickly data is restored to the system? Thanks for the help everyone. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TSM being abandoned?
We are still trying to get our minds around the crap we were sent by the auditors. What we were told in meetings and what actually happened turned out to be 180 out, and basically must have had the same experience. The good news here is some idiot already has brought in NBU, which has caused all kinds of turmoil, so whatever happens it's just a matter of turning one off and paying a bundle to bring the other one up to speed. If they were smart they'd move it all to TSM since I can already handle everything they have, but they're not, which is why we have 2 to begin with. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Coles Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:49 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: TSM being abandoned? Well, I would have to say as a recent victim of that process it did suck, (and yes I am toning it down). If IBM wants to audit the customer that's fine, but make sure the company you outsource that to has a clue and is customer oriented and not hostile! The original imbecilic person who started our audit didn't understand Oracle TDP or CPU based licensing properly, and was downright rude about it. I had to prove to him from IBM emails that the way we were licensed was proper according to IBM. At one point I recommended and threatened our IBM rep with migrating off of TSM. See Ya' Howard
Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM
How about this. Being in an organization that brought in another system, netbackup, it has confused things to no end. There are a lot of things I could say but typing on a blackberry prevents that, and keeps my blood pressure down. So my main comment is the grass isn't always greener just because some 'used' it someplace else and doesn't know a lick about TSM. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thu Apr 03 05:40:22 2008 Subject: Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM Tim, Another good one is de-duplication. Clients and venders alike believe de-deduplication will yield some high level of size reduction with TSM. TSM by design doesn't de-duplicate with the same results as other backup environments. Kenneth L. Bradberry Chief Technology Officer ACS Healthcare Solutions 5225 Auto Club Drive Dearborn MI 48126 (248) 226-4322 Office (313) 673-1686 Cell (248) 22601402 Fax email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACS - People Making Technology Work...In HealthcareTM CONFIDENTIALITY 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. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Hughes Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM Yeah, What about the client who thinks TSM backups up the same file every night even though it's not been updated. Or who want's a restore on a (specific) file from 6 months ago on a specific date even though that file has been updated 18 times and doesn't understand the a Retention Policy, Versioning or Expiration even after explantion. (The server keeps the inactive versions of the file until their number grows bigger than those allowed by the server policy.) Clark, Margaret wrote: My favorite is the customer who believes their every backup is on their own private tape, and will we just send it to them? - Margaret Clark, San Diego Data Processing -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:49 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about TSM Hey there, folks! I'm working very hard on my next book, which will have some product-specific information in it. I'm covering multiple products, so I won't go TOO deep on individual products, but I'd like to do my best to cover misunderstood or frequently asked topics for each major product. I figured that no one would know better than this list which topics people tend to get confused. What topics do you think should go on that list? (I've got my personal preferences, but I don't want to prejudice your thoughts.) What are the top 5/20/30 things about TSM that you think people get wrong? TIA --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
Re: q occ vs q fi
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought active files would never expire. So unless I've misunderstood this from the get go I am at a loss to understand how the active files could be gone. The nodes have moved backups to a different TSM server so I can understand expiration of inactive files. Is there something I've been missing all these years? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: q occ vs q fi Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: Don't understand. The q fi shows nothing, but admincenter shows a filespace. Cannot remove node because it says there are references. Q occ also shows nothing. I thought the last object in a backup would never expire on its own? Correct me if I'm wrong but UNIX directories don't occupy any space on tape (usually) but are references in the database so if you had say: exclude /filespace/.../* in your client options somewhere, you would have all the directories (the exclude above only excludes files) and thus a filespace in the tsm database, but no actual files, so q occup would show no occupancy for that filespace. Also, q file returns the actual size of the filesystem, while q occup shows the amount of data stored in storagepools.
q occ vs q fi
I am finding an interesting phenomenon where Q fi nodename will show a filespace and q occ nodenameshows nothing and q fi and q occ, not specifying a nodename, returns different results. I can use admin center and it will show the filespace for a node when q fi or q occ shows nothing. TSM Server is 5.4.0.3 on AIX 5.3 Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: q occ vs q fi
Don't understand. The q fi shows nothing, but admincenter shows a filespace. Cannot remove node because it says there are references. Q occ also shows nothing. I thought the last object in a backup would never expire on its own? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Tue Mar 25 17:30:57 2008 Subject: Re: q occ vs q fi You'll have to pursue the details of the filespace, keeping in mind that not all TSM-stored objects need to be in a storage pool, and that a filespace could go empty via expiration or object deletions. Richard Sims
ttdpsql in a cluster environment
Perhaps others have already dealt with this. Is there a way to create a single .cmd file that can be used for one schedule with multiple sqlservers in a cluster environment so it will run properly no matter what instance is on any one node or may have failed to a node it normally does not live on and not report a failure? Or do I have to make separate schedules for every node each with its own .cmd file and make sure the .cmd files are on all cluster nodes? Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
seemless migration to new schedule
I've never done this before and I don't think I've seen it discussed so I'll throw this out there. I was wondering if there are any ramifications when switching nodes to a new backup schedule. Meaning is there a chance that the nodes will be missed? I ask this because I have seen nodes added to a schedule after the scheduler was started and they ended up missed. Can this same thing happen when moving nodes between schedules or to a new schedule? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TDPSql emergency restore questions
We have a very old Windows NT 4 server that was using Client 5.1.5.15 and an old version of TDPSql that just crashed. The TDPSql version I'm not sure of but was hoping the log files from the client will tell me. I believe it goes way back to 2.2.1, maybe earlier. Not sure if anyone knows if log files have the version listed or not. If they don't then, without opening a case with IBM to get some answers, I was hoping if anyone knew what is the safest way to get last night's sql backup restored. It looks like it may need to be rebuilt from scratch. Questions: 1. Plan to restore the software install directory to a temp directory to look at those files. Will they reveal anything? I think so but am looking for help. 2. What if we install an incorrect version of the SQL client and try to connect and restore. What will happen, worst case (which I obviously want to avoid at all costs if it will render the backups useless)? 3. Is there a 'safe' version of the client to install that will restore these files? Thanks for any help others might have. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sql server restore to different server
No replies on the first post so let's try this. We have NT4 back up on a box running sqlserver but the guy did not name the sql server the name it was backing up under. My guess is this is why we are seeing nothing looking to restore the db's. Having never done this, how can I restore a database backed up on a sql server, call it server 1, to server2? So far my attempts at trying to use the tdpsql.cfg for this, which is where the from and to options are, have not worked. Thanks for any quick and easy help anyone can supply. In the mean time I also asked the person who made this to change the name of the sqlserver to the old name it was backed up under to hopefully solve the problem quicker. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tdpsql.cfg
I have been looking for a sample tdpsql.cfg to show how things are laid out in this file but have found nothing so far. Sure I could just throw things in it to see if they take but was hoping someone had a link or one they wouldn't mind sending instead. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tdpsql.cfg
You probably already saw this, but just in case... Nope, missed it completely actually. Since I have a few more questions might as well keep going. In a cluster environment it looks like the software is installed on a local disk. With an active/active cluster, and not really being concerned which instance is on which node, it seems to indicate that there needs to be multiple dsm.opt files. But what about this tdpsql.cfg? There seems to be entries in there that would need modification depending on which instance on a node. Am I mistaken there? By the way, in that sample file SQLSERVer is indicated by only a . so the question is if this is a cluster what that might need to be and what if a cluster fails to this node? I'm digging around the manuals as best I can but it sure would be nice to see a document that has a better layout of steps that need to be performed on each node in the cluster. Is there one? I'm trying to test in a cluster environment now so I want to make sure how these files are laid out in this environment and also an active/passive setup. Thanks for the help so far. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tdpsql.cfg
There needs to be duplicate dsm.opt files on each host in the cluster. 'Clusternode yes' should be in each dsm.opt. 'SQLServer' with the SQL cluster network/instance name should be noted in each tdpsql.cfg. I went through this very problem last week, I was missing the SQLServer name from the tdpsql.cfg. I have multiple dsm.opt files in the directory, one for each sql instance with the specific nodename in each and clusternode yes. I was just looking at a redbook that seems to indicate /configfile would be added, I think, to the command and is how you define multiple tdpsql.cfg files, I think for cluster instances, but I need to read further. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it possible to get list of OFFSITE tapes to restore node to latest backup?
Is it possible to get a list of the OFFSITE tapes required to restore a specified node to the *latest* backup? Many Thanks, =Adrian= I worked on this scenario with IBM support some time ago. It doesn't surprise me that, even though I have recommended the system be able to get me this info if a primary storage pool tape has been destroyed, that nothing has been done. Anyway, you can run a trace on the server while attempting to restore the file(s) from the client. You would receive an error that the data is not available but the trace file will capture the data you need. If you are going to test this you need to make the onsite tape unavailable first. The scenario worked for me, tested on version 4.something, and I would guess still works. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Davis, Adrian Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Is it possible to get list of OFFSITE tapes to restore node to latest backup? Adrian Davis * System Administrator * SunGard Public Sector Ltd * (Unit 72) 1st Floor, Romer House, 132 Lewisham High Street, Lewisham, London, SE13 6JG, UK * Tel +44 (0)20 8463 8571 (DDI) * www.sungardps.co.uk
Re: Is it possible to get list of OFFSITE tapes to restore node to latest backup?
Wouldn't then the relevant required for the restore (list of the copypool volumes) pop up in the actlog? It did not in any tests I performed. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows 5.5.0.4 client now available
There is also a fix in this version that I found that resolves those clients using journaling on more than one filesystem that do not have the last backup completion date updated. This seems to have also been fixed. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Raibeck Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 3:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Windows 5.5.0.4 client now available Great to hear that this has resolved your Vista-related issues. On a related note: you also need 5.5.0.4 for Windows 2008 support. Regards, Andy Andy Raibeck IBM Software Group Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development Level 3 Team Lead Internal Notes e-mail: Andrew Raibeck/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Tivoli Storage Manager support web page: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStorageMan ager.html The only dumb question is the one that goes unasked. The command line is your friend. Good enough is the enemy of excellence.
ISC error
While using the ISC today I received an error while assigning nodes to a schedule. Now whenever trying to pull up that schedule with the ISC I get this error in the server logs and the schedule shows there are no nodes defined. It seems to be only this schedule having this problem. If you try and associate a node with that schedule by viewing all client nodes and clicking on update table I get a java error. Again, it seems to only be related to this single schedule. ANR0486W Session 386240 for node GEOFF (DSMAPI) terminated - internal error detected. ANRD ThreadId176 issued message 486 from: -0x00010001c73c outMsgf -0x0001004ceea0 smEndMessage -0x0001004d1a18 smExecuteSession -0x000100551794 SessionThread -0x0001e9dc StartThread -0x09404448 _pthread_body Q assoc does show the nodes defined so I don't think I have anything to worry about but I was wondering if anyone else has seen this sort of problem with the ISC and if so how you resolved it. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tdpsql
I was wondering if those using the sql tdp might pass on what they have found is a good configuration for your systems. I certainly understand there are going to be differences in how environments are set up and may find I would have to use a completely different configuration. Honestly the last time I used it was version 2.2 but wanted to see if it would solve a on and off again problem we have, and since the dba's don't seem to care I wanted to dig it out and try to get it back in as a standard. I was able to install version 5.5 and just kicked off a full backup of a single 35gb database. I am running a basic command line backup and did not code in any optional items. The rate started around 11,168,00 Kb/Sec but seems to be very slowly steadily dropping little by little, now at 11,129.00. I was wondering if others have seen better throughput by tweaking the configuration options. Do you run nightly full backups on everything or just selected db's or other scenario. Again, I have not used it for some time and would like to get input on what folks have found is a good setup and backup standard so the dba's are 'happy' (which is hard around here). The server is running 4 cpu's, windows 2003, 4gb ram and sql2000 on a 100/FULL link. Previously we had set up a .cmd file on the client and set up the schedule to call it. From what I have seen so far it looks like this is still the method for scheduling backups. Currently I am exporting data and having it sent over to a DR site. At this point the data is sql dumps the dba's create. I am guessing I can export the sql filespace and import it at the other site and at that point someone can use the sqltdp to restore it to a sqlserver. Any issues I should be concerned with or specific options I would need to use when restoring the data? Thanks for any input others might have. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tdpsql
I just upgraded a 5.2 version of tdpsql to 5.5 and am getting the following message in the tdpsql.log. Has anyone seen this when upgrading? 02/20/2008 16:40:01 = 02/20/2008 16:40:01 Request : QUERY SQL 02/20/2008 16:40:01 - 02/20/2008 16:40:01 ACO5422E Received the following from the MS SQL server: 02/20/2008 16:40:01 Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tdpsql
Correct Del. I did not see that, only a popup for the .net framework. I'll get those on and hopefully all will be well. Thanks - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Wed Feb 20 17:32:24 2008 Subject: Re: tdpsql I am guessing that you are running with SQL Server 2000? There are some prerequisites when using Data Protection for SQL 5.5 with SQL Server 2000. The book lists these requirements here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsmfd.doc/dpsql52.htm In a nusthell: If Data Protection for SQL is to be used with SQL Server 2000, the following prerequisite software is required: 1) Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 or later http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856EACB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5displaylang=en 2) Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0 or later 3) Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 4) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Management Objects Collection Items 2 - 4, can be obtained here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D09C1D60-A13C-4479-9B91-9E8B9D835CDCdisplaylang=en Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU wrote on 02/20/2008 07:45:05 PM: I just upgraded a 5.2 version of tdpsql to 5.5 and am getting the following message in the tdpsql.log. Has anyone seen this when upgrading? 02/20/2008 16:40:01 = 02/20/2008 16:40:01 Request : QUERY SQL 02/20/2008 16:40:01 - 02/20/2008 16:40:01 ACO5422E Received the following from the MS SQL server: 02/20/2008 16:40:01 Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Re: What to use for TSM monitoring/alerting
My question is: What tools are you folks using to monitor TSM and alert you to any problems. Nicholas We use Servergraph Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backup status
Client 5.5.0.1 Server 5.4.0.3 AIX 5.3 I installed this new client on a number of servers about 1 week ago. The problem did not rear its head immediately. What I have seen in the client logs is a successful backup posted but what I see on the server if a filespace that says it has not completed successfully,, since the 13th for this computer . For the other servers I know 5.5 is on I am seeing the same thing. None of those showed immediately either. Again, the logs on the client say there was a successful backup of the drive in question but the server shows something different. Below is one of the comparisons. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this. I was going to open a case with IBM but wanted to find out if someone else already has a pmr opened. Client log: 01/14/2008 20:59:06 TSM Backup-Archive Client Version 5, Release 5, Level 0.1 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Querying server for next scheduled event. 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Node Name: AVS 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Session established with server ADSM1: AIX-RS/6000 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Server Version 5, Release 4, Level 0.3 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Server date/time: 01/14/2008 21:00:02 Last access: 01/13/2008 21:13:51 01/14/2008 20:59:06 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 01/14/2008 20:59:06 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Next operation scheduled: 01/14/2008 20:59:06 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Schedule Name: DAILY_SCHED 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Action:Incremental 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Objects: 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Options: 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Server Window Start: 21:00:00 on 01/14/2008 01/14/2008 20:59:06 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Executing scheduled command now. 01/14/2008 20:59:06 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT BEGIN DAILY_SCHED 01/14/2008 21:00:00 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Incremental backup of volume '\\avs\c$' 01/14/2008 20:59:06 Incremental backup of volume '\\avs\d$' 01/14/2008 20:59:47 Querying Journal for '\\avs\d$' 01/14/2008 20:59:48 Processing 14 Journal entries for '\\avs\d$' 01/14/2008 21:10:54 Successful incremental backup of '\\avs\d$' 01/14/2008 21:35:10 Querying Journal for '\\avs\c$' 01/14/2008 21:35:11 Processing 25 Journal entries for '\\avs\c$' 01/14/2008 21:35:11 Successful incremental backup of '\\avs\c$' 01/14/2008 21:36:35 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Total number of objects inspected: 64 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Total number of objects backed up: 234 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Total number of objects updated: 0 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Total number of objects rebound: 0 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Total number of objects deleted: 0 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Total number of objects expired:102 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Total number of objects failed: 0 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Total number of subfile objects: 0 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Total number of bytes transferred: 10.68 GB 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Data transfer time:1,793.12 sec 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Network data transfer rate:6,245.58 KB/sec 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Aggregate data transfer rate: 4,979.60 KB/sec 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Objects compressed by:5% 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Subfile objects reduced by: 0% 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Elapsed processing time: 00:37:28 01/14/2008 21:36:35 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS END 01/14/2008 21:36:35 --- SCHEDULEREC OBJECT END DAILY_SCHED 01/14/2008 21:00:00 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Scheduled event 'DAILY_SCHED' completed successfully. 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Sending results for scheduled event 'DAILY_SCHED'. 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Results sent to server for scheduled event 'DAILY_SCHED'. 01/14/2008 21:36:35 ANS1483I Schedule log pruning started. 01/14/2008 21:36:35 ANS1484I Schedule log pruning finished successfully. 01/14/2008 21:36:35 TSM Backup-Archive Client Version 5, Release 5, Level 0.1 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Querying server for next scheduled event. 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Node Name: AVS 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Session established with server ADSM1: AIX-RS/6000 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Server Version 5, Release 4, Level 0.3 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Server date/time: 01/14/2008 21:37:31 Last access: 01/14/2008 21:00:03 01/14/2008 21:36:35 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY BEGIN 01/14/2008 21:36:35 --- SCHEDULEREC QUERY END 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Next operation scheduled: 01/14/2008 21:36:35 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Schedule Name: DAILY_SCHED 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Action:Incremental 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Objects: 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Options: 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Server Window Start: 21:00:00 on 01/15/2008 01/14/2008 21:36:35 01/14/2008 21:36:35 Waiting to be contacted by the
ISC/Admin Center
Does anyone know if the new Admin Center install over top, on a Windows box, what I already have in place or does the previous version need to be uninstalled first. I have been unable to find any docs yet so I thought I'd ask here. Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
import node 'incomplete'
TSM server AIX 5.3 TSM Server 5.3.3.0 I am running an import node, something we have been doing successfully for quite some time now. For some reason today I am seeing this INCOMPLETE status for this but no other errors in the activity log for reading or writing a file. What else can cause this and is there a way to get a more robust output that might show the issue? ANR0617I IMPORT NODE: Processing completed with status INCOMPLETE. ANR0620I IMPORT NODE: Copied 0 domain(s). ANR0621I IMPORT NODE: Copied 0 policy sets. ANR0622I IMPORT NODE: Copied 0 management classes. ANR0623I IMPORT NODE: Copied 0 copy groups. ANR0624I IMPORT NODE: Copied 0 schedules. ANR0625I IMPORT NODE: Copied 0 administrators. ANR0891I IMPORT NODE: Copied 0 optionset definitions. ANR0626I IMPORT NODE: Copied 0 node definitions. ANR0627I IMPORT NODE: Copied 6 file spaces 0 archive files, 0 backup files, and 0 space managed files. ANR0656W IMPORT NODE: Skipped 0 archive files, 39744 backup files, and 0 space managed files. ANR0628I IMPORT NODE: Used 0 volume(s). ANR0629I IMPORT NODE: Copied 2495 bytes of data. ANR1364I Input volume T00771 closed. ANR0515I Process 2 closed volume T00771. ANR0611I IMPORT NODE started by GEOFF as process 2 has ended. ANR0986I Process 2 for IMPORT NODE running in the BACKGROUND processed 6 items for a total of 2,495 bytes with a completion state of SUCCESS at 14:57:22. Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
