Re: Multisession backup to Container Pool - Session hang

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hi,

we are investigating a similar issue backing up HANA wit TDP 4 ERP to a AIX 
7.1, TSM 8.1.11.100.
Support says: " It appears hdbbackint is waiting for a message from the the IBM 
Spectrum Protect server by requesting recv from the server connection, but the 
function call keeps returning EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)."
I will keep you up to date...

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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Uwe Schreiber
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2021 3:23 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Multisession backup to Container Pool - Session hang

OS: AIX 7.2

ISP version: 8.1.11.101



Last week I had several incidents with hanging sessions from TDP clients doing 
a multisession backup in a directory container pool.



A problem like this was already fixed a few versions ago.

(APAR IT20858: MULTISTREAM BACKUP SESSIONS MAY HANG WHEN SAVING DATA INTO
DIRECTORY- OR CLOUD-CONTAINER STORAGE POOLS)



The problem has not occurred since the parameter was set via 
"CheckInFlightChunks" via "setopt CheckInFlightChunks False".



Have any of you noticed such behavior?



Regards, Uwe

Next Storage Pool of Container Storage Pool

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hello all,

we recently setup some container storage pools and used the ability to
define a tape pool as a next storage pool (I think this is new in 8.1.10).
As expected this, pool is used in case of an overflow.
Has anybody some experiences in bringing back those data, "swapped" into the
tape pool to the container storage pool?

Best regards
Jonas
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Re: isp replication and automatic failover for backup to target server

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hi,

there is a rfe for this feature:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=107699

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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Loon, Eric 
van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 9:15 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] isp replication and automatic failover for backup to 
target server

Hi Stefan,

I have also talked about this feature with a server architect from IBM during 
the SP Symposium in Germany, last year. Backup is almost as vital as backup (at 
least for databases), so failover for backup would be a great enhancement. He 
told me it's on the roadmap, but definitely not in the near future.

Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage & Backup

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Tsm Tsm
Sent: woensdag 1 juli 2020 07:36
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: isp replication and automatic failover for backup to target server

Hello,

automatic failover for backups to target replication server if source server is 
unavailable.

is there a chance to get this feature in some of the next versions of spectrum 
protect?

with best regards
Stefan Savoric

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Re: Moving data in cloud storage pool

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hi,

I have head a similar requirement and asked the Support about it. They advised 
to create another pool and use tiring to move the date.

" Hi Jonas,
thanks for your reply and patience on this case. I have checked your inquiry
regarding moving/migrating data from an existing S3 provider to another, via
Spectrum Protect server operations (so the DB can reflect the changes), however
it's not applicable at the moment. The workaround will be setting up a new
storage pool on the system, then tier the data from the old pool to the new one.
This way you can bypass the limitation and migrate the data successfully
So the way to do it (SP server 8.1.9 is required) is to enable an option (setopt
is fine no restart needed) called AllowTierTargetDir (just set it to YES or ON).
With that option enabled, they can define a tiering STGRULE with both a target
and and source pool as a container pool. Using that tiering STGRULE you can move
data from one container pool to the other (tiering is basically migration for
container pools). Without the option enabled, the target isn't allowed to be a
container pool.
Please find the link below for a tiering scenario with  A step-by-step example
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.9/srv.admin/r_cloud_tier_example.html
Please let us know if  On Behalf Of Rackoll, Björn
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 12:57 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Moving data in cloud storage pool

Hi,


I have to move data from a bucket in a cloud container storage pool that 
unfortunately was created with the wrong owner.


I understand that I can't change the owner of the bucket directly (on the S3 
level), neither can I copy the data to a new bucket in S3 and change the bucket 
name of the cloud container storage pool to the new one in TSM.


Is really the last option that I have to lock the node, copy the contents of 
the bucket into a temporary new bucket on the S3 level, delete the old bucket, 
recreate it with the right owner and copy the whole data back?


Or does somebody have another idea?


Cloud system is on-premise Cloudian S3, if that matters. We have two regions, 
but CRR is far too slow to be considered for this problem (the data amount is 
fairly large).


Regards,


--
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Universität Hamburg
Regionales Rechenzentrum
Basis-Infrastruktur
Storage, Dateidienste, Backup und E-Mail Schlüterstr. 70
20146 Hamburg
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Adoption of Cloud Container Storage Pools

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hi,



is there anybody out there using cloud container storage pools at bigger scale? 
We plan to replace abbot 1.5PB of disk by cloud container storage pools using 
RedHat Ceph 3 as Cloud target.

Are there known pitfalls?



Kind regards,

Jonas

---

Jonas Jansen



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Re: TSM4VE storage pools

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hi,

you can use the VMMC and VMCTLMC options to use a differing management class. 
Please have a look at the Docs 
(https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSERB6_8.1.8/ve.inst/r_ve_mount_tape.html).
 You definitively need to store your control files on a non tape storage. We 
ran into this trap once and it slowed our backup down extremely.

Kind regards,
---
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Chris McKay
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 8:45 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM4VE storage pools

Hi there,

I currently have a basic TSM4VE implementation setup that backs up to our VTL 
by default. I have a requirement now though to back up some VM's and templates 
directly to physical tape. I'm not 100% sure how to achieve this.
Do I create a new data mover node for this? How do I backup to a different 
policy domain??

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Kind regards,

Chris

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backup db failure on 817 rhel7.6

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hi,

do you use CA signed certificates?
We head a similar issue, because TSM only knows abbot 4 CAs. We worked around
this problem by using shared memory connections for database backup. Tis SWG
was published:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21664425

---
Jonas Jansen

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Abteilung: Systeme & Betrieb
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Michael Prix
Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 10:00 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] backup db failure on 817 rhel7.6

Hello,

check for tsmdbmgr.opt in the instance directory and
/opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dbbkapi/dsm.sys if they contain valid data.

--
Michael Prix

On Thu, 2019-05-16 at 15:51 -0400, J. Eric Wonderley wrote:
> I'm getting this failure:
> ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: BACKUP DB
> devc=dbfile type=full ANR0984I Process 3 for Database Backup started
> in the BACKGROUND at
> 04:33:11 PM.
> ANR4559I Backup DB is in progress.
> ANR2280I Full database backup started as process 3.
> IBM Spectrum Protect:PROFESSOR>
> ANR8340I FILE volume /dbbackup/55101192.DBV mounted.
> ANR0513I Process 3 opened output volume /dbbackup/55101192.DBV.
> ANR1360I Output volume /dbbackup/55101192.DBV opened (sequence number 1).
> ANR4626I Database backup will use 1 streams for processing with the
> number originally requested 1.
> ANR2968E Database backup terminated. Db2 sqlcode: -2033. Db2 sqlerrmc: 400
>  .
> ANR1361I Output volume /dbbackup/55101192.DBV closed.
> ANR0515I Process 3 closed volume /dbbackup/55101192.DBV.
> ANR0985I Process 3 for Database Backup running in the BACKGROUND
> completed with completion state FAILURE at 04:33:12 PM.
> ANR1893E Process 3 for Database Backup completed with a completion
> state of FAILURE.
>
> IBM Spectrum Protect Server for Linux/x86_64 - Version 8, Release 1,
> Level
> 7.000
>
> Anyone else experienced this before?  Its very repeatable and I cannot
> seem to find cause

Vote for feature: Media lifecycle

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hello,

maybe some of you may require automated media lifecycle to. In case you wish
this feature, vote for this feature request:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=131259

Best regards,
---
Jonas Jansen

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Re: Looking for suggestions to deal with large backups not completing in 24-hours

[Jansen, Jonas]

It is possible to da a parallel backup of file system parts.
https://www.gwdg.de/documents/20182/27257/GN_11-2016_www.pdf (german) have a
look on page 10.

---
Jonas Jansen

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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of Del
Hoobler
Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 3:29 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Looking for suggestions to deal with large backups not
completing in 24-hours

They are a 3rd-party partner that offers an integrated Spectrum Protect
solution for large filer backups.


Del



"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 07/09/2018
09:17:06 AM:

> From: Zoltan Forray 
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 07/09/2018 09:17 AM
> Subject: Re: Looking for suggestions to deal with large backups not
> completing in 24-hours
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
>
> Thanks Del.  Very interesting.  Are they a VAR for IBM?
>
> Not sure if it would work in the current configuration we are using to
back
> up ISILON. I have passed the info on.
>
> BTW, FWIW, when I copied/pasted the info, Chrome spell-checker
red-flagged
> on "The easy way to incrementally backup billons of objects" (billions).
> So if you know anybody at the company, please pass it on to them.
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 6:51 AM Del Hoobler  wrote:
>
> > Another possible idea is to look at General Storage dsmISI MAGS:
> >
> > INVALID URI REMOVED
>
u=http-3A__www.general-2Dstorage.com_PRODUCTS_products.html=DwIBaQ=jf_ia
SHvJObTbx-
>
siA1ZOg=0hq2JX5c3TEZNriHEs7Zf7HrkY2fNtONOrEOM8Txvk8=ofZM7gZ7p5GL1HFyHU75
lwUZLmc_kYAQxroVCZQUCSs=25_psxEcE0fvxruxybvMJZzSZv-
> ach7r-VHXaLNVD_E=
> >
> >
> > Del
> >
> >
> > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 07/05/2018
> > 02:52:27 PM:
> >
> > > From: Zoltan Forray 
> > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > > Date: 07/05/2018 02:53 PM
> > > Subject: Looking for suggestions to deal with large backups not
> > > completing in 24-hours
> > > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
> > >
> > > As I have mentioned in the past, we have gone through large
migrations
> > to
> > > DFS based storage on EMC ISILON hardware.  As you may recall, we
backup
> > > these DFS mounts (about 90 at last count) using multiple Windows
servers
> > > that run multiple ISP nodes (about 30-each) and they access each DFS
> > > mount/filesystem via -object=\\rams.adp.vcu.edu\departmentname.
> > >
> > > This has lead to lots of performance issue with backups and some
> > > departments are now complain that their backups are running into
> > > multiple-days in some cases.
> > >
> > > One such case in a department with 2-nodes with over 30-million
objects
> > for
> > > each node.  In the past, their backups were able to finish quicker
since
> > > they were accessed via dedicated servers and were able to use
Journaling
> > to
> > > reduce the scan times.  Unless things have changed, I believe
Journling
> > is
> > > not an option due to how the files are accessed.
> > >
> > > FWIW, average backups are usually <50k files and <200GB once it
finished
> > > scanning.
> > >
> > > Also, the idea of HSM/SPACEMANAGEMENT has reared its ugly head since
> > many
> > > of these objects haven't been accessed in many years old. But as I
> > > understand it, that won't work either given our current
configuration.
> > >
> > > Given the current DFS configuration (previously CIFS), what can we
do to
> > > improve backup performance?
> > >
> > > So, any-and-all ideas are up for discussion.  There is even
discussion
> > on
> > > replacing ISP/TSM due to these issues/limitations.
> > >
> > > --
> > > *Zoltan Forray*
> > > Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator
> > > Xymon Monitor Administrator
> > > VMware Administrator
> > > Virginia Commonwealth University
> > > UCC/Office of Technology Services
> > > www.ucc.vcu.edu
> > > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807
> > > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations
will
> > > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social
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details
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> > >
> >
>
>
> --
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> Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator
> Xymon Monitor Administrator
> VMware Administrator
> Virginia Commonwealth University
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Re: Admin session refused on each new client

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hi Eric,
I think you should use the new dsmcert tool to add the server certificate to 
the client trusted certificate store. May bee you can add this step to your 
script.
Best regards,
Jonas Jansen

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, 
Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 5:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Admin session refused on each new client

Hi guys!
We have always used a script to install the TSM client code on new Linux 
clients. Since the server was upgraded to 7.1.8 (and thus are suffering from 
the new security features) the script fails. The admin session which is 
supposed to define the new node on the TSM server is rejected with the message 
"ANR0404W Session 66 for administrator ADMIN (Linux x86-64) refused - client is 
down-level with this server version.". This can be fixed once by a upd admin 
ADMIN sessionsecurity=transitional at which point the certificate is exchanged 
and the session is working again. But because the sessionsecurity is 
immediately set to strict afterwards by TSM, the next time the script is run on 
a different client, it fails again.
Has anybody been able to find some work-around for this?
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
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Re: TSMVE 8.1.4 installation over webgui, we do not know any of the node passwords now

[Jansen, Jonas]

Hello,

since the datacenter node is only accessed via proxy connections, you can 
simply chance the datacenter node password.

Best regards
Jonas Jansen

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tsm Tsm
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 8:44 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSMVE 8.1.4 installation over webgui, we do not know any of 
the node passwords now

Hello,

our complete new tsm ve installation for vmware 8.1.4  was configured 
completely over the webgui.

so all nodes, etc are registered from the wizard.

so we do not know any of the passwords of the datamovers or the datacenter node 
at all.
and thats the problem.

how can we change the datacenter node password? for example to get the recovery 
agent work?

with which password are the nodes registered?

with best regards
stefan savoric