Re: [adsm] Simple include (probably)
Try: include /u03/* include /u03/.../* Making sure that this will be matched first (reading from the bottom up) before any other matching exclude statements. Also make sure you don't have any matching exclude.fs or exclude.dir statements anywhere (i.e. exclude.fs /u03) -Lloyd On 12/22/2011 03:42 AM, Minns, Farren - Chichester wrote: Morning all I'm trying to add a filesystem back in to the a Solaris client backup. The filesystem is called /u03 I assumed ... include /u03/.../* ... would work but it doesn't. What am I doing wrong ? Farren John Wiley Sons Limited is a private limited company registered in England with registered number 641132. Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom. PO19 8SQ.
Re: [adsm] Re: Storage pool using scratch volumes instead of empty volumes
Check and see what MAXSCRATCH is set to on xosatapool. If you predefined the volumes, it should probably be 0. Also, I've seen it do this if you remove a volume from the filesystem, then allocate new ones, but don't remove the old volume definition from within TSM (del vol ). For some reason it tries to recreate them, even if maxscratch=0 and there are other volumes available. -Lloyd On 12/22/2011 06:26 AM, Copper, Steve wrote: No - I get no volumes returned. tsm: TSMq v stg=exosatapool stat=emp acc=reado,unav ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of James R Owen Sent: 22 December 2011 11:20 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Storage pool using scratch volumes instead of empty volumes Steve, does this command also list your empty volumes: q v stg=exosatapool stat=emp acc=reado,unav -- jim.o...@yale.edu On 12/22/2011 4:23 AM, Copper, Steve wrote: ... My question is: Why is this migration process creating scratch volumes in my filesystems when I have 666 (not made up,current figure!) empty volumes assigned to the storage pool? This has only recently started happening - before it would only create scratch volumes when it had run out of Empty volumes. ... Snip of q vol stgpool=exosatapool and grep'd for Empty /sata_vol_71/sata5058.d- EXOSATAPOOL SATACLASS 20.0 G 0.0 Empty /sata_vol_71/sata5059.d- EXOSATAPOOL SATACLASS 20.0 G 0.0 Empty /sata_vol_71/sata5060.d- EXOSATAPOOL SATACLASS 20.0 G 0.0 Empty /sata_vol_71/sata5061.d- EXOSATAPOOL SATACLASS 20.0 G 0.0 Empty ... __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __ Western Power Distribution (South West) plc / Western Power Distribution (South Wales) plc / Western Power Distribution (East Midlands) plc / Western Power Distribution (West Midlands) plc Registered in England and Wales Registered number: 2366894 (South West) / 2366985 (South Wales) / 2366923 (East Midlands) / 3600574 (West Midlands) Registered Office: Avonbank, Feeder Road, Bristol, BS2 0TB 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 postmas...@westernpower.co.uk
Re: [adsm] DB2 requirements for RedHat Linux 6
I vaguely remember running into something like this, and I worked around it by symlinking /usr/lib/libwhatever to /usr/lib64/libwhatever and re-running ldconfig. Might be worth a shot -Lloyd On 09/09/2011 10:50 AM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: We are building a new server and decided to go with RedHat 6. DB2 Requirements page says RHEL 6 is valid for DB2 9.7 with Fix Pack 4. When we try to run the installation for base 6.2.1 (couldn't find a 6.2.3 in Passport), it chokes saying we are missing Linux compat-libstdc++ (libstdc++so.6) But when we check, these libraries are installed at the latest levels. So I was wondering what DB2 fixpack level does the 6.2.1 base come with? Comment from my OS guy: -- [root@galaxy ~]# rpm -ql libstdc++ /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.13 The library file is there. [root@galaxy ~]# yum list compat-libstdc++-33 Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, subscription-manager Updating Red Hat repositories. Installed Packages compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 3.2.3-69.el6 @anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201105101844.x86_64/6.1 Available Packages compat-libstdc++-33.i6863.2.3-69.el6 rhel-x86_64-server-6 The package is installed at the latest available level. [root@galaxy ~]# rpm -ql compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-69.el6.x86_64 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.5.0.7 But the package they asked for provides the wrong version of the library. --- Our RHEL level: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago) 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Are we too far ahead, OS wise, for the installer for this to work? Any other suggestions for figuring out what it doesn't like? Zoltan Forray TSM Software Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
Re: [adsm] Re: LARGE MS-SQL TDP backup keeps failing
That sounds to me like your volume mount got preempted by a higher priority operation, like a restore. Can you check the server actlog and see if something grabbed your volume/mount point? -Lloyd On 09/06/2011 01:12 PM, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: I don't think there is a firewall. Well, it got further (700GB) before being killed by the TSM server. 9/6/2011 12:05:04 PM ANR0524W Transaction failed for session 59224 for node ACIPENSER.VCU.EDU (TDP MSSQL Win32) - data transfer interrupted. 9/6/2011 12:05:05 PM ANR0487W Session 59224 for node ACIPENSER.VCU.EDU (TDP MSSQL Win32) terminated - preempted by another operation. At this rate, I don't think it is possible to back it up, especially if it is making this 1-4TB transaction. I again have to ask the question - can you tell the SQL TDP to break-up the backup into multiple transactions, like you can with the Oracle TDP? From: Thomas Denierthomas.den...@jeffersonhospital.org To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 09/06/2011 10:27 AM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] LARGE MS-SQL TDP backup keeps failing Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor ManagerADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU -Zoltan Forray wrote: - I am trying to backup a LARGE SQL (4TB) database via the SQL TDP, without success. It will run for a while and then die - usually with the error: ANS1017E (RC-50): Session Rejected : TCP/IP communications failure. The last try backed up 125GB before failing. I have greatly increased the server communication timeout (6000 seconds) guessing it is a timeout issue. I know very little about the SQL TDP (v5.5.5.0 - base TSM client is 6.1.3.2 - yes I know it needs updating) and config options. Is there a way to breakup the backup into chunks, like you can do with Oracle backups? Suggestions? Does the backup pass through a firewall? Firewalls generally have a timeout period for idle TCP sessions. This is rarely more than an hour, and I have heard of firewalls with the timeout set as low as 15 minutes.
Re: [adsm] Re: TSM v6.2 Diaster Recovery Restore
See: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itsm.tshoot.doc%2Fr_pdg_cmonerrsbkupdbrstordb.html A 106 seems to indicate a permissions problem. -Lloyd On 09/06/2011 10:44 AM, Ehresman,David E. wrote: I am trying to do a DR type restore of a TSM 6.2 DB onto a tsm instance on a different machine. After the DB backup tape mounts, I get a Database restore terminated. DB2 sqlcode: -2033. DB2 sqlerrmc: 106.. What are the DB2 codes trying to tell me? The restore is running on TSM 6.2.3.0 server level. The OS is AIX 6100-06-05-1115 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 2:37 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] SV: TSM v6.2 Diaster Recovery Restore Hi David, Yes you can do that. Make sure you have backup the database to a media that both Instance Users can read/write and also copy Volhist/Devconfig and copy both of them in to your new instances home directory (same as dsmserv.opt) after you have configured the new instance. Best Regards Christian Svensson Cell: +46-70-325 1577 E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se Supported Platform for CPU2TSM:: http://www.cristie.se/cpu2tsm-supported-platforms Från: Ehresman,David E. [deehr...@louisville.edu] Skickat: den 2 september 2011 21:44 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: TSM v6.2 Diaster Recovery Restore Can I restore a TSM v6.2 database to a tsm instance with a different name? That is, could I restore a db backup from a tsm with a instance user id of libmgr1 to a new machine which has been configured with a instance user id of libmgr2?
Re: [adsm] Re: TSM 6.x and HADR
I've been playing with this recently...as Daniel indicated, it's pretty easy to set up. db2pd -hadr -db tsmdb1 Run from either the primary or secondary will give the status of the connection, and which log files it's working on. Failing over from primary - secondary is also straight forward. Where I ran into a problem was trying to fail back...that didn't seem to be as easy. I don't recall the exact steps, but I think what I did was to stop DB2 on both the primary and secondary, then restart DB2 and HADR on the secondary as standby. On the primary, I tried to start HADR as primary, and it wouldn't start. I wound up doing a db2 rollforward db tsmdb1 to end of logs and complete, after which it came back up, and I was able to get it to resume its role as primary. -Lloyd On 06/15/2011 10:51 AM, Prather, Wanda wrote: I'm interested in hearing from folks using it. From the presentation, I am uneasy at all the cmd-line DB2 setup commands required to use it, and wonder if it's suitable for a shop with no in-house DB2 expertise. Once it's set up, how much time/expertise does it take to monitor/manage it? In fact, how do you monitor it at all? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Langdale Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 3:19 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.x and HADR I might be hijacking the thread (excuse me) so I'll change the subject too. Is there already an official announcement of TSM 6.x and replicating the database by means of HADR? It is supported: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27021382wv=1 But it aint free, you have to purchase a DB2EE license for it. As for who is using it, I'm sure I recall someone on the mail list was doing it a few weeks back. Steven
Re: [adsm] Increase speed of TDP Exchange Backups
That looks to be somewhere in the area of 290MB/sec. I'd suspect that the client host (Exchange server) isn't capable of sending it any faster. Have you looked at the client end? -Lloyd On 06/12/2011 09:49 PM, Leonard, Matthew wrote: Our exchange backups (Doing Full) are a little under 4.0 TB and they are taking 14 hours. We are using a Virtual Tape library and the bandwidth is great, however they are just taking way to long. I also increased the Amount to 5 for each exchange node as we have 120 drives. Does anyone have any ideas of how I can increase the duration of these exchange backups? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance Matthew J. Leonard Network Administrator AtlasAir Worldwide Holdings Network Operations Department matthew.leon...@atlasair.com Office: 914.701.8715 Mobile: 914.262.3974
Re: [adsm] TSM and XIV
I'm betting the pauses are the XIV destaging data from cache to physical disk. Not a big fan of using heavily cached disk LUNs for disk/file storage pools On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:47:47 +0200 Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl wrote: Hi all, I'm currently testing TSM 5.5.4 on AIX 5.3 with an IBM XIV box. When I use dd or other tools to copy data off the disk to tape (LTO4), we get quite a good performance, 100 MB/s or better. Even when backing up data on the XIV via shared memory directly to tape, we're quite happy, we can read the data at over 100 MB/s for one backup job, and for over 200 MB/s for two jobs. But, when TSM uses the XIV for DISK volumes, we're not in a happy place, backing up data from one XIV to TSM with diskpool on another XIV, we get about 55 MB/s per backup job, best case. Both XIV boxes are otherwise completely idle. When migrating data of the diskpool to tape, it's the same, no matter what we do, we don't even get close to the LTO4 native performance, about 70 MB/s is the best I've seen, and usually it's less. The TSM server is at that time only running the migration, nothing else. The stragest thing we notice is that TSM seems to completely pause every so often, no disk i/o, no tape i/o no cpu utilization, nothing for about one second, and the it goes again. When I let two migration processes run, this is less obvious, because one process continues while the other one pauses. We've opened a hardware call with IBM to find out if there are any settings on the hdisks or HBAs that we need to change, and even though we did get some hints, and some performance improvement out of that, we fell that TSM should be able to do a lot better. Does anyone else have experience with XIV as a diskpool? and if so, what sort of performance do you see? -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post, PLCS --
Re: [adsm] Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has
Amen! This licensing is KILLING us! On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:19:33 +1200 Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.info wrote: Thanks for that John Take a look at the latest PVU table. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html For P7 and Nehalem EX processors the CPU and Core count is not enough, it also depends on how many CPUs the box is *capable* of. I dunno what the IBM guys were smoking when they thought this up, but its going to be very difficult to calculate manually in any reliable fashion. Think also that an 8x4 Nehalem server will use 3840 PVUs. We figure that TDP for MSSQL on such a box will cost more than the MSSQL licences even with heavy discounts. All but my largest customers are deserting TSM as fast as they can, mostly to Commvault, simply because of the cost of the product, and the perceived cost when we make the licences purchased accord with reality. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Paraparaumu, New Zealand John D. Schneider wrote: Greetings, I led our team doing a TSM audit on a 2000 server environment about a year ago. The biggest headache I have ever had. There are so many exceptions for each different kind of servers. VMware servers, standalone Windows, NAS, Clusters, AIX Lpars in a sub-processor lpar. It took a couple months, and we still probably had some mistakes in it, but we got REALLY close. We just recently installed IBM License Metric Tool. The early versions were really bad, but the version we recently installed (7.5, I think) seems to work correctly. It even seems to count correctly the AIX sub-processor Lpars, which we thought would confuse it. Deploying it in a large environment will be a project, but it comes with a self-extracting installer that won't be too tough, once we script it. The only problem is that you have to set up a config file that defines where your ILMT server is, and then you have to push that out to each server before you run the installer on each host to install it. In the future we will make it part of our standard build, which will make it more seamless. But I believe that, once we get it deployed, it will really be less work than any other method of counting licenses would be. The other choice would be a capacity-based license. I understand IBM is starting to make these available. The hitch is that each license is individually negotiated with IBM, and you have to count your licenses with PVUs first to establish a baseline for calculating what a fair capacity-based license would be. This sounds like to me like everybody will end up paying a different price for TSM, depending on their mix of TSM clients when they establish their baseline, and what kind of negotiators they are. Best Regards, John D. Schneider The Computer Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 Original Message Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has From: Robert Clark robert.cla...@usbank.com Date: Mon, April 26, 2010 4:04 pm To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Funny phrase that, shear amout of work. Unintentional pun? As in fleecing sheep? [RC] From: David Longo david.lo...@health-first.org To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/23/2010 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU I bet a lot of people get extra counts for reasons you mentioned and related ones. David Longo Rick Adamson rickadam...@winn-dixie.com 4/23/2010 2:08 PM We just recently went through an IBM audit and were tasked with collecting this information on several hundred machines, some local and some remote. When I told my management that TSM does not collect this info he got our IBM rep on the phone for confirmation. I spent a considerable amount of time trying to find a way to get a near accurate count without having to worry about hyperthreading fudging my numbers. Intel makes, or made, a small utility call cpucount that does the job. With very little scripting it can gather the numbers. I just created a for loop that referenced a text file with the node names and ported it out to a cvs file. David if you can't find it let me know and I will see if I still have a copy. I STRONGLY suggest that anyone about to attempt this read the IBM license terms regarding PVU's. IBM has no compassion regarding the shear amount of work the it requires and they send third party auditors out to your site that only have the slightest clue what they are doing. In many situations they tried to double count our MS clusters (once for the physical nodes, and again for the
Open Solaris?
I'm not a Solaris type, so I need to ask...is Open Solaris the same as Solaris x86? Trying to find out if the Solaris x86 client will work on Open Solaris, or if is something different altogether. Thanks, -Lloyd
Multiple server-server exports of a single client
Scenario: Two TSM servers, both v5.5.X. TSM serverA has retention for a particular client (node1) of 60 days. TSM serverB is used as a target for server-server export/import from serverA. On serverB, node1 is defined, and retention is set to NOLIMIT. After 30 days, node1's data is exported to serverB, using the command: export node node1 toserver=serverB filedata=all merge=yes replacedefs=no If I continue to do this every 30 days, will I wind up with every version of the data originally backed up on serverA, now on serverB, essentially retained forever? TIA, -Lloyd
Re: [adsm] Generate Backupset error
I'm guessing that you have specified toc=yes in your generate backupset command, but you don't have tocdestination defined in the copygroup. -Lloyd On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:52:30 -0800 Mario Behring mariobehr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi list, I am trying to generate a BACKUPSET for a node that I´ve just executed a Selective Backup and I am getting the following errors: ANR1114E GENERATE BACKUPSET: No nodes or data types are eligible for backup set generation. ANR1113E : No table of contents destination storage pool available for backup set for node NODE NAME (data type File). The backup set will not be generated. What could be wrong? Mario
Re: [adsm] Re: Keeping mgt classes in sync across multiple TSM servers
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I seem to recall that you could not replicate domain/policy/mgmtclass from a configuration manager if there were nodes assigned to the domain on the target (client) system. Which made it pretty inconvenient. I've used server-server export policy to achieve the same result, though. -Lloyd On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:41:10 -0800 Skylar Thompson skyl...@u.washington.edu wrote: As a matter of fact there is. TSM provides Enterprise Configuration functionality, where you define one system as a configuration server and subscribed other systems to profiles on the configuration server. We've been using it with TSM 5 and 6 servers without any trouble, and it's available free-of-charge after the regular TSM server licensing, at least for extended edition. You can find it documented in Chapter 21 of the Administrator's Guide: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/topic/com.ibm.itsml.doc/anrlgd55633.htm#entmgmt Richard Rhodes wrote: We are now up to 6 primary TSM instances (as opposed to special purpose instances). We try and keep the policy sets setup the same so we can move nodes between them as needed. This wasn't bad when there was only a couple instances, but it's getting more of a issue with 6 instances. For example, I just created a 3mo archive class on one instance . . . and did it 5 more times on other instances. (Yes . . the CLI and scripts are your friends!) q) If you keep the domains/policysets/mgtclasses in sync across multiple TSM instances, How do you do it? There isn't some feature to sync these across multiple instances? Thanks Rick - The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S048, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
Re: [adsm] Re: Encryption
Actually, the encryption isn't bad from a performance perspective. In our testing, enabling encryption only incurred a 5-10% perfromance penalty. The real issues come from the fact that encrypted data doesn't compress, so if you encrypt on the client without using client compression, your tape useage will likely increase. And if you encrypt AND compress on the client, then you get hit with a significant client performance penalty...but it's the compression that kills you, not the encryption. But you're right...doing it on the drive is usually a much better way to go. -Lloyd On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:13:39 -0500 Wanda Prather wprat...@jasi.com wrote: Encryption with the client is very CPU intensive, both on backup and on restore. If you have LTO4 or 3592 tape, or STK tape drives that encrypt, it is far, far better to do it in the hardware. W On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Moyer, Joni M joni.mo...@highmark.comwrote: Hello everyone, I am beginning the process of deciding upon a method of encryption. I was just wondering if anyone utilizes TSM to encrypt data? It seems to be quite a cumbersome method of encryption... I was also wondering if anyone was using hardware encryption in their environments? And what type of set up do you have? Thanks in advance Joni Moyer Storage Administrator III (717)302-9966 joni.mo...@highmark.com This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark Inc., its subsidiaries, or affiliates.
Re: [adsm] Netware restore problem/question
Bill, I'd be suspicious of a Java issue...are you seeing the contents of other directories? -Lloyd On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:18:02 -0500 Bill Boyer bjdbo...@verizon.net wrote: Netware 6.0 server running TSM client 5.2.5. The user is using the web client to restore some files in a directory. That directory is not shown/listed. Even using the show active/inactive option. Looking in the dsmsched.log file, I can see that files are actively being backed up from that directory as current as of last night. I think my question is.will the TSM web client only display directories/files that the current user can restore based on permission? And is the web client using the saved (NWPFILE) information? TIA, Bill Boyer --
Re: [adsm] Admin Center installation error
Is the install path c:\program files\IBM\ISC601, or c:\program files\IBM\ISC6011? If you're sure it's correct, and it still won't install, I'd suggest a manual de-install of the ISC, followed by a reboot and reinstall of the ISC AC. -Lloyd On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:33:43 -0700 Mario Behring mariobehr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi list, I have TSM Server 5.5 running on a Windows 2003 Server box. I´ve instaleld ISC6011 with no errors. However, when installing the TSM Admin Center I´ve got an error saying that the ISC601 installation path could not be found (C:\Program Files\IBM\ISC601). The path exists and ISC is there...what could be happening? Below is part of the ac_install.log file, generated during the Admin Center installation: [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Starting ISC... [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] The system cannot find the path specified. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Command Exit value is 0 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Completed step number: 7 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Completed step number: 8 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Attempting to determine if the product is already installed. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] The system cannot find the path specified. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Command Exit value is 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] System RC = 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Attempting to determine if the product is already installed. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] The system cannot find the path specified. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Command Exit value is 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] System RC = 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Attempting to determine if the product is already installed. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] The system cannot find the path specified. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Command Exit value is 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] System RC = 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Attempting to determine if the product is already installed. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] The system cannot find the path specified. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Command Exit value is 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] System RC = 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Attempting to determine if the product is already installed. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] The system cannot find the path specified. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Command Exit value is 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] System RC = 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] ERROR: Unable to determine the installation state of AdminCenter! [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Completed step number: 9 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] RC = 1 [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] ERROR: Failed to (re)deploy our component. [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Installation failed [June 16, 2009 8:27:48 PM BRT] Total install time: 0 minutes and 8 seconds. Thanks Mario
Re: TSM - Configuration Manager
As far as I know, if there is a node assigned to a domain on the managed server, you can't update the domain on the cfg manager and use notify subscriber to update it on the managed server. The reason that your domain PD-Adicional works is because tou don't have any nodes assigned to it, right? I normally use export policy to push out domain-type changes to the managed server. If you really want to use a profile to push domain changes, I've used a temporary domain on the managed server with all the retentions set to nolimit. Assign all of the nodes in the domain you want to update to the temporary nolimit domain, update the real domain using notify subscriber, and reassign the nodes to the domain you just updated. A pain in the neck. Much easier to use export policy. -Lloyd On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 10:33:26 -0300 Vinicius Fraga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hi, I have 2 TSM Servers, one is Configuration Manager= TITAN, and the another one is the managed server= Hydra. I share the domain PD-SP created on Titan with Hydra, and all the sync was working perfectly, until we lost the configuration of hydra and the status of Managed server turned to Not Managed, we restabilished the sync but now everything that I create for example a new Management Class on PD-SP and try to sync with notify subsc.. are not syncronizating, it seems that the TSM is considering that there is a objetc PD-SP on Hydra, and are not letting to overwrite... Just for a test, if I create another domain, for example: PD-Adicional, and sync it to hydra, it works perfectly. So anyone had this problem, anyone knows how to restabilishe the sync for my domain PD-SP??? On the log bellow, i simulate creating a MGM class called: POLITICA_TESTE on PD-SP, and trying to sync, and the return that it cannot update de PD-SP. titan: log 08/06/2008 10:25:47 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: NOTIFY SUBSCRIBERS PROFILE=PROFILE-SP (SESSION: 500116) 08/06/2008 10:25:47 ANR3092I NOTIFY SUBSCRIBERS: Subscriber notification processing has begun. (SESSION: 500116) 08/06/2008 10:25:47 ANR0408I Session 500117 started for server HYDRA (Linux/i386) (Tcp/Ip) for configuration management. (SESSION: 475086) 08/06/2008 10:25:47 ANR0409I Session 500117 ended for server HYDRA (Linux/i386). (SESSION: 475086) 08/06/2008 10:25:47 ANR0408I Session 500118 started for server HYDRA (Linux/i386) (Tcp/Ip) for configuration management. (SESSION: 500118) 08/06/2008 10:25:47 ANR3157I Configuration refresh started for managed server HYDRA. (SESSION: 500118) hydra log: 08/06/2008 10:25:27 ANR0408I Session 2101 started for server TITAN (Linux/i386) (Tcp/Ip) for configuration management. (SESSION: 2101) 08/06/2008 10:25:28 ANR0409I Session 2101 ended for server TITAN (Linux/i386). (SESSION: 2101) 08/06/2008 10:25:28 ANR0408I Session 2102 started for server TITAN (Linux/i386) (Tcp/Ip) for configuration management. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:28 ANR3152I Configuration refresh started with configuration manager TITAN. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:29 ANR3361I Locally defined administrator ADMIN replaced during configuration refresh processing. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:30 ANR3361I Locally defined administrator ADMIN_CENTER replaced during configuration refresh processing. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:30 ANR3361I Locally defined administrator CPEREIRA replaced during configuration refresh processing. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:30 ANR3361I Locally defined administrator FLOPES replaced during configuration refresh processing. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:30 ANR3361I Locally defined administrator MRIBEIRO replaced during configuration refresh processing. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:30 ANR3352I Locally defined domain PD-ADICIONAL replaced during configuration refresh processing. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:31 ANR3350W Locally defined domain PD-SP contains at least one node and cannot be replaced with a definition from the configuration manager. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:31 ANR3356I Locally defined administrative schedule BKP_STG replaced during configuration refresh processing. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:31 ANR3354W Locally defined administrative schedule EXPIRE_INVENTORY is active and cannot be replaced with a definition from the configuration manager. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:31 ANR3354W Locally defined administrative schedule MIGRATION_STG is active and cannot be replaced with a definition from the configuration manager. (SESSION: 4) 08/06/2008 10:25:31 ANR3354W Locally defined administrative schedule RECLAIM_MNT is active and cannot be replaced with a
Re: ANR9999D: BlueARC NDMP backup
It sounds like you're trying to backup to a disk pool, which is supposed to work with 5.4 and above with Netapp/Nseries and Celerra. In our case, the TSM server is Linux RH4, V5.4, to SAN attached 3584 with LTO3 drives. I couldn't get it to work with BlueArc, and I went down the path with their tech people...the response was that they'd never had anyone try that yet...not sure if I believe that or not. What I gathered from the exercise was that the BlueArc apparently wasn't capable of doing NDMP 3-way communication. In our case, NDMP backups direct to tape work fine, albeit very slowly, which was the reason for trying to run to the disk pools. A snippet if the activity log is below, along with a help listing for the ANR4794E message. If you have any more luck than I did, I'd love to hear about it ANR0984I Process 60 for BACKUP NAS (FULL) started in the BACKGROUND at 09:27:53 AM. ANR1063I Full backup of NAS node NAS01, file system /__VOLUME__/SW, started as process 60 by administrator ADMIN. ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY PROCESS ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: QUERY MOUNT ANR2034E QUERY MOUNT: No match found using this criteria. ANR4794E The NAS file server xxx.xxx.x.xx failed to open an NDMP data connection to the TSM tape server. Please verify that the file server is capable of outbound data connections. ANR4728E Server connection to file server NAS01 failed. Please check the attributes of the file server specified during definition of the datamover. ANR1096E NAS Backup to TSM Storage process 60 terminated - storage media inaccessible. ANR0985I Process 60 for BACKUP NAS (FULL) running in the BACKGROUND completed with completion state FAILURE at 09:29:08 AM. tsm: TSM01help 4794 --- ANR4794E The NAS file server File server name failed to open an NDMP data connection to the TSM tape server. Please verify that the file server is capable of outbound data connections. Explanation: During a NAS filer-to-server backup operation the data connection from the file server to the TSM server failed. This may occur because a firewall exists between the file server and the TSM server and is preventing outbound network connections on the file server. This may also occur if the network configuration of the system running the TSM server is reporting an invalid TCP/IP host address, for example 127.0.0.1. System Action: The TSM server backup operation on the file server fails. User Response: Verify that the NAS file server is capable of starting outbound network connections to the TSM server. Verify that the file server supports NDMP 3-way operations. Verify that the network configuration of the system running the TSM server is reporting a valid TCP/IP host address. . On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:49:55 -0500 c.hanover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: I'm trying to get NDMP backups working for a client of ours. This is my first time playing with NDMP, so I may just be doing something completely wrong. What we've got: TSM 5.4.1.2 on Linux, 3584 library with 4x 3592 drives. Client has a BlueARC NAS device we're trying to get backed up via NDMP using filer-to-server. I don't have any data on the model, though I could get it if it matters. What I've done: I set up a domain/policy/management class and copy groups for the client (each client gets their own domain, it's how we do our billing). Copygroup type=backup specified a tocdestination. I registered the node, type=nas. I then registered a datamover, using userid/password to access NDMP as set up on the NAS, dataformat=ndmpdump. Storage pools (disk/tape/copy) are all native format, TOC gets its own set of destinations different than the default management class storage pool (not necessary, but we have the space) From what I can tell from the documentation I've read, this is all right. (NDMPDUMP format pools are only required for filer-to-tape configs, right?) Judging by this: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21242762 TSM should work happily with a BlueARC NAS. Unfortunately, I get the same error when I define the data mover as when I attempt a backup: 02/07/08 11:03:56 ANRD ndmpspi.c(1075): ThreadId 41 NDMP Server does not support Token Base Incremental Backup. (SESSION: 34) 02/07/08 11:03:56 ANR1763E UPDATE DATAMOVER: Command failed - see previous error messages or view the activity log. (SESSION: 34) Google, unfortunately, has nothing on this error. Searching this list for BlueARC reveals one person who asked if anybody else had tried to back them up with no responses. There is no firewall between TSM and NAS. tcpdump shows communications going back and forth, and a username is sent. Is there something I've done wrong in my setup? Is there something that needs to be set up differently on the client side? Any
Re: Where can I find the downloadable TSM 5.5 documentation?
Actually, around here, no they won't. They've refused me several times, saying that it is copyrighted material, and therefore they cannot print/bind it. Pretty annoying. -Lloyd On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:52:59 -0500 Wanda Prather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Dude, Let's get simple. Just download the .pdf version of the manual you want, put it on a CD, and take it to your local Kinko's/Fedex copy center. They will print from the pdf for you, double sided, B White or color, prepunched. I do it, when I need to. You can even log on and mail it to them so it will be ready to pick up when you get there. Doesn't cost any more than it used to when we could buy the published versions, and you get turnaround in less than 24 hours. W On 1/16/08, Roger Deschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . It's all at the usual location, http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/index.jsp What I want to know is where can I buy a paper copy? I don't have the patience to print them, and I really want a printed copy of the v5.5 Administrator's Guide. Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.= On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Kauffman, Tom wrote: admin reference and not having any luck. If' they are in the media pack they're well hidden. TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return email and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
Re: Suggestion for Archive?
Christian, This sounds like an excellent use for backupsets, or else possibly periodic exports. Other sites have a second instance of TSM that is used for periodic large backups and long-term retention requirements. I generally discourage archives for large amounts of data, due to the DB entries that are created, as well as the amount of time required to create those archives. The only sites that I have with out of control database growth are attempting to do what you describe. -Lloyd On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:09:13 +0100 Christian Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hi all, I hope you all had a great new year. Just a quick question. Has anyone tried to archive 20 TB data every mouth for 10 years? If yes how are you doing that and how is your environment looks like? Happy New year Christian
Re: SV: Suggestion for Archive?
Christian, Is the primary tape pool collocated? If not, I'd strongly recommend it (although it's probably too late to help you with this issue). I collocate all of my primary sequential access pools, and control usage with maxscratch and collocation groups. Do you have enough space in your disk pools to do a move nodedata from tape to disk pools in preparation for the generate backupset or export operation? The other option I've used is to define monthly or yearly nodes, with different node names, schedules and retention settings. For example, node_a for the dailys, node_a_monthly, node_a_yearly. It's a nuisance to set up on the client side, but works well once it's in place and avoids database bloat. I think that you're going to have issues doing many archives like that, especially for your anticiptade growth...even if it gets you past the immediate issue. Don't forget that you can set up a second TSM instance on the same physical box...that might help for what your'e trying to accomplish. -Lloyd On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:58:20 +0100 Christian Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hi Lloyd, We have tried Backupset for a wild now but we see that it takes approx 3 weeks to archive all 300 nodes. If the backupset fails then do we need to restart the entire job and we are getting behind the schedule. We looking at to create smaller node groups but still it takes a long time. :( I was thinking to maybe setup a second TSM Server and export the data from one server to the other and that maybe can reduce the time. I'm guessing that the problem is probably all tape mounts that is required to collocate all data so maybe that is something to look at? Or what do you think? A good information to know is that the end-user looking at to grow up to 100 TB in the next 4-5 years. Thanks Christian -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: Lloyd Dieter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 3 januari 2008 13:09 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: Re: Suggestion for Archive? Christian, This sounds like an excellent use for backupsets, or else possibly periodic exports. Other sites have a second instance of TSM that is used for periodic large backups and long-term retention requirements. I generally discourage archives for large amounts of data, due to the DB entries that are created, as well as the amount of time required to create those archives. The only sites that I have with out of control database growth are attempting to do what you describe. -Lloyd On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:09:13 +0100 Christian Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hi all, I hope you all had a great new year. Just a quick question. Has anyone tried to archive 20 TB data every mouth for 10 years? If yes how are you doing that and how is your environment looks like? Happy New year Christian
Windows 5.4.1.X client hangs?
Has anyone else been experiencing an issue with client backup hangs on either the Win32 or Win64 v5.4 B/A clients? TSM server is 5.4.1.0, client is either 5.4.1.2 or 5.4.1.2. There's nothing obvious in the error log, and the dsmsched.log just shows the client stopping in mid-backup with no further progress messages. The schedule is currently running off of the client acceptor (managedservices webclient schedule), but running the scheduler standalone does not seem to help. When this occurs, the scheduler service will still be running (normally stops after backup completes when under control of the CAD). Stopping/restarting services will make it run for another couple of days, then it hangs again. It appears to be related to either SYSTEMSTATE or SYSTEMSERVICES...if I exclude these, it seems to work OK. Temporarily, I'm using a postnschedulecmd that stops/restarts the CAD. This works around the problem, but is obviously a hack. dsm.opt file: TCPCLIENTADDRESS mynode TCPSERVERADDRESStsm01 TCPCLIENTPORT 1501 NODENAMEmynode SCHEDMODE PROMPTED PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE MANAGEDSERVICES WEBCLIENT SCHEDULE POSTNSCHEDULECMDc:\progra~1\tivoli\tsm\baclient\restart_services.cmd ERRORLOGNAMEc:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmerror.log ERRORLOGRETENTION 7 D SCHEDLOGNAMEc:\program files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmsched.log SCHEDLOGRETENTION 7 D EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\microsoft uam volume\...\* EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\microsoft uam volume\...\*.* EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\...\EA DATA. SF EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\IBMBIO.COM EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\IBMDOS.COM EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\IO.SYS EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\...\system32\config\...\* EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\...\system32\Perflib*.dat EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\...\system32\dhcp\...\* INCLUDE.BACKUP *:\...\system32\dhcp\backup\...\* EXCLUDE.BACKUP *:\...\system32\dns\...\* INCLUDE.BACKUP *:\...\system32\dns\backup\...\* EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\microsoft uam volume\...\* EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\microsoft uam volume\...\*.* EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\...\EA DATA. SF EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\IBMBIO.COM EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\IBMDOS.COM EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\IO.SYS EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\...\system32\config\...\* EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\...\system32\Perflib*.dat EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\...\system32\dhcp\...\* INCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\...\system32\dhcp\backup\...\* EXCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\...\system32\dns\...\* INCLUDE.ARCHIVE *:\...\system32\dns\backup\...\* EXCLUDE.DIR *:\System Volume Information EXCLUDE.DIR *:\...\Temporary Internet Files EXCLUDE.DIR *:\Recycled EXCLUDE.DIR *:\Recycler
Re: TSM For ERP with DB2 config
Are you seeing anything in the server activity log? One issue that I ran into was that the logs and database should be stored in different storage pools when using the include logs option. Otherwise the backup can preempt itself doing a log retrieval...there's a technote that describes the problem. If you run the backup without the include logs, does it complete? -Lloyd On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:48:43 +0530 Sachin V Chaudhari1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: HI, Thx for the reply. Command for taking backup:- db2 backup db SID online include logs load /usr/tivoli/tsm/tdp_r3/db264/libtdpdb264.a Also I use DB13 to take the backup with include logs selected. But no success. One imp point is When I fired the backup, its started, I can see the backup status using db2 list utilities show detail command. But at the end of it, its just hang, means some MB's of data remaining to complete the bkp. after some time TSM was terminating that session as its reaches the IDLETIMEOUT value. Environment details. The version of DP for mySAP or DP for ERP. : DP for mySAP v5.3.3 The operating system level and patches that were applied (of the Data Protection Client) : AIX 5.3 ML5, 64bit DB2 UDB v9.1, 64bit Full TSM server version : TSM v5.3.2 OS version and level for TSM server : Windows 2003 R2 Standard Edition with SP2 TSM client 5.3.4 SAP version ECC6.0 Any inputs on the above Thanks, Sachin. Lloyd Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] R.RR.COM To Sent by: ADSM: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU Re: [ADSM-L] TSM For ERP with DB2 config 12/14/2007 01:13 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] om snip snip On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:36:40 +0530 Sachin V Chaudhari1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: HI All, Any one have some idea about the configuration of TSM for ERP on DB2 on AIX box. If someone have then pls send me db2 get db cfg for SID command output. Actually I was facing some problem in that. I already configured the TSM for ERP. But when I fired the db backup including logs then my backup was hung at the end. But if I fired only database backup its completed successfully. When my backup was hung , at that time there is no error log in db2diag.log in TSM. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Sachin
Re: TSM For ERP with DB2 config
I haven't heard this before...can you elaborate on this? Is it documented anywhere? -Lloyd On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:44:52 +0100 Hans-Joachim Renger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello Sachin, before you continue on this path: You are using infinite logging, which is not recommended for an SAP environment. Unless you definitely need it, I'd suggest to switch to Archive Logging db2 update db cfg for SID using LOGSECOND 40 and see if that works. Mit freundlichen Gruessen / With kind regards / Bien a vous / Cordiali saluti / Saygılar Dr. Hans-Joachim Renger Customer Consultant TSM and SAP [EMAIL PROTECTED], mobil 0160-948 66445 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Product info: http://www.ibm.com/de/entwicklung/esd/
Re: ISC 6.0.1.1 Install on Linux
I've seen similar, but on 6.0.1 ISC and RH4. Numerous attempts, manual de-install cleanup, the works, and I was only able to get it to install with the help of IBM support, who had me copy the entire contents of the CD into the installation target (/opt/IBM/ISC601), and run the install from there. Never had it happen before or since, but you might want to try that. -Lloyd On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:23:22 -0500 William Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Redhat ES 4, ISC6.0.1.1 install. Just loaded the Redhat and nothing else is on it. The install goes through the 6.0.1 and then proceeds to the 6.0.1.1 patch, gets to 99% and then hangs. Never goes any farther. This is the 2nd time I've gotten this condition. Which is why I went back to a fresh install of Redhat. Anyone have any ideas or similar results Bill Boyer Select * from USERS where CLUE0 0 rows returned
Re: TSM For ERP with DB2 config
by transaction(MAX_LOG) = 0 Num. of active log files for 1 active UOW(NUM_LOG_SPAN) = 0 Group commit count (MINCOMMIT) = 1 Percent log file reclaimed before soft chckpt (SOFTMAX) = 300 Log retain for recovery enabled (LOGRETAIN) = RECOVERY User exit for logging enabled(USEREXIT) = OFF HADR database role = STANDARD HADR local host name (HADR_LOCAL_HOST) = HADR local service name(HADR_LOCAL_SVC) = HADR remote host name(HADR_REMOTE_HOST) = HADR remote service name (HADR_REMOTE_SVC) = HADR instance name of remote server (HADR_REMOTE_INST) = HADR timeout value (HADR_TIMEOUT) = 120 HADR log write synchronization mode (HADR_SYNCMODE) = NEARSYNC First log archive method (LOGARCHMETH1) = VENDOR:/usr/tivoli/tsm/tdp_r3/db264/libtdpdb264.a Options for logarchmeth1 (LOGARCHOPT1) = /db2/SAMPLE/tdp_r3/vendor.env Second log archive method(LOGARCHMETH2) = OFF Options for logarchmeth2 (LOGARCHOPT2) = Failover log archive path(FAILARCHPATH) = Number of log archive retries on error (NUMARCHRETRY) = 5 Log archive retry Delay (secs) (ARCHRETRYDELAY) = 20 Vendor options (VENDOROPT) = /db2/SAMPLE/tdp_r3/vendor.env Auto restart enabled (AUTORESTART) = ON Index re-creation time and redo index build (INDEXREC) = SYSTEM (RESTART) Log pages during index build(LOGINDEXBUILD) = OFF Default number of loadrec sessions(DFT_LOADREC_SES) = 1 Number of database backups to retain (NUM_DB_BACKUPS) = 12 Recovery history retention (days) (REC_HIS_RETENTN) = 180 TSM management class(TSM_MGMTCLASS) = TSM node name(TSM_NODENAME) = TSM owner (TSM_OWNER) = TSM password (TSM_PASSWORD) = Automatic maintenance (AUTO_MAINT) = OFF Automatic database backup(AUTO_DB_BACKUP) = OFF Automatic table maintenance (AUTO_TBL_MAINT) = OFF Automatic runstats (AUTO_RUNSTATS) = OFF Automatic statistics profiling(AUTO_STATS_PROF) = OFF Automatic profile updates (AUTO_PROF_UPD) = OFF Automatic reorganization (AUTO_REORG) = OFF On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:36:40 +0530 Sachin V Chaudhari1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: HI All, Any one have some idea about the configuration of TSM for ERP on DB2 on AIX box. If someone have then pls send me db2 get db cfg for SID command output. Actually I was facing some problem in that. I already configured the TSM for ERP. But when I fired the db backup including logs then my backup was hung at the end. But if I fired only database backup its completed successfully. When my backup was hung , at that time there is no error log in db2diag.log in TSM. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Sachin - -- Lloyd Dieter- Systems Engineer IBM CATE Registered Linux User 285528 SCS, Inc. http://www.scsinet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:315-446-Direct:585-226-3289 --
Re: Upgrading AIX TSM 5.2.7.1 to 5.3.4.2
Joni, I'd recommend doing 5.3.0 - 5.3.4 - 5.3.4.2. The licensing changes from 5.2 to 5.3. You'll want to register lic file=tsmee.lic. I assume you're aware of the ISC/AC, and the requirements for that. To make the transition easier, I'd install the patches for the classic web interface. Also, I'm guessing that you already have your own schedules/scripts to do administrative tasks...so *don't* let the ISC/AC set up it's own maintenance schedule unless you know that's what you want. -Lloyd On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:21:22 -0500 Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello everyone, I will be upgrading an AIX 5.3 TSM server which is currently at 5.2.7.1 to the 5.3.4.2 release. I was wondering if I can just upgrade to 5.3.4.0 and then apply the 2 patches? Or do I have to upgrade to 5.3.0 and then go from there? Also, should I be aware of losing anything such as scripts, DRM, etc. when this upgrade is completed? Thank you in advance! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems, Senior Systems Programmer Phone Number: (717)302-9966 Fax: (717) 302-9826 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: offtopic: AIX FTP/TELNET question
Whenever I hear about long connection times, the first thing I think of is a DNS issue...have you checked your forward/reverse lookups for the affected hosts? -Lloyd On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:28:48 -0700 Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Sorry for asking this on the ADSM list but I know a lot of folks using AIX can help me with this. I'm having an FTP and Telnet issue and as far as I can tell it is not AIX related. I am trying to access 2 of my TSM servers in a fire walled off area. FTP and telnet login screens were typically sub second screens but now are taking right around 75 seconds when using reflections. Command line ftp fails so my jobs are not working. Command line FTP eventually comes up and says connected but then it also says the connection is closed by the remote host. This happens right at 60 seconds. Reflections FTP takes 75 seconds but allows me to log in and transfer files. Dos command line telnet also takes 75 seconds but works. Reflections Telnet work the same way. This phenomenon started last week and, as typically happens, I'm told it's my problem and nothing network related. Just so I don't go down and rip someone's head off when I shouldn't, would some please tell me I'm wrong and where to fix this if it actually is on my end? Is it possible it is having a hard time trying to find a route or is this a setting on my side that can be changed I'm not aware of? Thanks, Geoff Gill TSM Administrator PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator SAIC M/S-G1b (858)826-4062 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Operational Reporting oddities
I can offer a suggestion for scheduling reports/monitors in TSMOR...turn off the TSMREPTSVC service. The maximum time granularity achievable with the service is one hour, and there have been numerous occasions when I wanted more control. What I've found is the best solution is to execute the reports/monitors as .cmd files from the command line via the Windows scheduler. You can then update reports/monitors as frequently or infrequently as you want. You first have to define the report or monitor within TSMOR. Then if you CD into the install directory (usually c:\program files\tivoli\tsm\console), you can execute: tsmrept -type=list To show all of the command strings necessary to run each report or monitor. Put those commands into a script, and execute them from the Windows scheduler. For example, a script called daily_reports.cmd might contain: c: cd \progra~1\tivoli\tsm\console tsmrept -COMPUTER=myserver -INSTANCE=myinstance -TYPE=report -NAME=daily report -notifyrecipients=yes tsmrept -COMPUTER=myserver -INSTANCE=myinstance -TYPE=report -NAME=reclamation reports -notifyrecipients=yes tsmrept -COMPUTER=myserver -INSTANCE=myinstance -TYPE=report -NAME=statistics report -notifyrecipients=yes tsmrept -COMPUTER=myserver -INSTANCE=myinstance -TYPE=report -NAME=tape media report -notifyrecipients=yes tsmrept -COMPUTER=myserver -INSTANCE=myinstance -TYPE=report -NAME=client backup report -notifyrecipients=yes HTH -Lloyd On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:55:52 -0400 Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: We have version 5.3.3.0 of TSM Operational Reporting running under Windows 2003. OR is being used to monitor a TSM server that is currently at 5.2.6.0 and will shortly be upgraded to 5.3.3.0. The server runs under mainframe Linux. I am trying to set up two montitors for to detect passwords that will expire within a week. One is for administrator passwords used to automate TSM operations. The other is for node passwords used for Oracle TDP (Oracle TDP is cleverly designed to prevent the use of the 'passwordaccess generate' option). I would like each of these monitors to run once per day. They run once per hour even when the 'Period covered' and 'Repeat every' attributes are both set to 24 hours. How do I get them to run less frequently? When I created the second monitor I found the rule from the first monitor already present. When I added the rule for expiring node passwords to the second monitor it appeared in the first monitor as well. When I activate or deactivate a rule in one monitor it is activated or deactivated in the other monitor as well. How doI create two monitors with different rules? -- -- Lloyd Dieter- Systems Engineer IBM CATE Registered Linux User 285528 SCS, Inc. http://www.scsinet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:315-446-Direct:585-226-3289 --
Re: Limits to TSM Reporting Tool?
There's a limit of 62 reports (or was, for the 5.2.X versions). The service apparently can't handle more than that. I work around it by creating batch files that execute the reports/monitors from the command line, and run them from the windows scheduler. Works like a champ. -Lloyd On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:22:55 -0500 Dennis Melburn W IT743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Is there a limit to the number of reports (aka containers) that the reporting tool can handle? I've been seeing problems with the reporting tool not working at all as soon as pass the 60 mark. Anyone else seeing this? Any way to increase this threshold or is this a limitation in the software? Mel Dennis
Re: DB LOG Volume layout - new
I've been watching this thread with interest, as some of the posts contradicted what I thought I knew. Using nmon, I've watched a couple of systems (AIX, TSM 5.2) running expiration and DBbackups that have the DB vols set up according to the one volume per spindle premise that appeared to have spotty hot disks, that is the I/O was not distributed evenly across the different volumes. One drive would have a lot of I/O, then another, etc. I've always striped them, in hardware if it was available, and using LVM if it was not. This gave fairly even I/O, but I admit that doesn't mean that it was the fastest method. I'd love to have a definitive answer here, because I've heard it both ways, and when I've asked support, they didn't seem to know. I'd like someone piled higher deeper to give a conclusive answer...anyone? -Lloyd On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:28:55 -0500 Allen S. Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:43:57 +0100, Dirk Kastens [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How do you get the occupancy of a database volume? With Q DBVOL I only see the available space (size of the formatted volume) and the allocated space (what is assigned to the database). In my case both are the same for all volumes. OK, I'll just blush there. What I was describing was incorrect. I've got a little space unallocated on all of my databases, for a rainy day, and that appearance is similar to what I was describing. I still think Paul is right, though. If I wave my hands really hard, will that convince you? Or do I need a Ph.D.? - Allen S. Rout
Re: Missing MMC reports
As Henrik indicated, you'll need those .xml files, and possibly any other customized ones that you might have had. Also, any customized reports will have .ext extensions...so you'll want to restore those as well. Mail Recipient lists are exported as .rcp, if you had any of those saved. The scheduling stuff, I believe, is unfortunately saved in the registry, so you will likely have to recreate that by hand. Generally what I do is to install a fresh copy of the same version in the same location, and then restore all contents of the console directory, and restart the reporting service. That's worked pretty well for me in the past. Regards, -Lloyd On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:29:03 + Large, M (Matthew) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Thanks for that Henrik, I can see those files in the console dir, but no other xml files. Are non-default reports added to these files or are more xml files generated? Thanks again, Matthew -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henrik Wahlstedt Sent: 20 December 2005 08:26 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Missing MMC reports Hi, Take a look at thoose XML files. If I remeber it correctly all reports are stored as XML files and thoose listed belows are the default reports. \...\tsm\console\default_rep_eng.xml and default_mon_eng.xml //Henrik -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Large, M (Matthew) Sent: den 20 december 2005 09:17 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Missing MMC reports Hi TSMers, TSM 5.2.4.5 on W2K3 In a server move a colleague has mislaid my MMC reports - can any one tell me what form these reports had before they were deleted? The system was regularly backed up so I can restore them, if I know what to restore! Many thanks, Matthew TSM Consultant ADMIN ITI Rabobank International 1 Queenhithe, London EC4V 3RL _ This email (including any attachments to it) is confidential, legally privileged, subject to copyright and is sent for the personal attention of the intended recipient only. If you have received this email in error, please advise us immediately and delete it. You are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Although we have taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, we cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the viruses in this email or attachments. We exclude any liability for the content of this email, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided in this email or its attachments, unless that information is subsequently confirmed in writing. If this email contains an offer, that should be considered as an invitation to treat. _ --- The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the addressee only. Any unauthorised use, dissemination of the information or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message. Thank you. _ This email (including any attachments to it) is confidential, legally privileged, subject to copyright and is sent for the personal attention of the intended recipient only. If you have received this email in error, please advise us immediately and delete it. You are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. Although we have taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, we cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the viruses in this email or attachments. We exclude any liability for the content of this email, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided in this email or its attachments, unless that information is subsequently confirmed in writing. If this email contains an offer, that should be considered as an invitation to treat._ -- -- Lloyd Dieter- Systems Engineer IBM CATE Registered Linux User 285528 SCS, Inc. http://www.scsinet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:315-446-Direct:585-226-3289 --
BlueArc Titan: anybody backing one up?
I have a customer that is looking to implement one of these, and is requesting information on backing it up. Quickly poking around the web site didn't reveal any mention of NDMP. Does anyone on the list have one of these, and if so, how are you backing it up? TIA, -Lloyd
Re: CAD Question
Debbie, AFAIK, load dsmcad is what you use on a netware box to load the CAD. For Winders, it's under your services. When I get one that's got the scheduler service managed by the CAD that won't run, I always check the output of dsmcutil query cad. Make sure the line Cad Schedule Service is correct (should show the name of the tsm scheduler service). If not, you have to issue something like: dsmcutil update cad /name:tsm client acceptor /cadschedname:tsm central scheduler service /autostart:yes Where cadschedname is the name of the scheduler service you installed. Also make sure, since you are using the CAD to run the schedule, that the scheduler is set to manual, rather than automatic, and the CAD should be automatic (and running). Lastly, since you are using prompted scheduling, check your dsm.opt to see if TCPCLIENTADDRESS is set to the IP address of the client...this seems to be an issue occasionally. Then run a manual backup of something, making sure that you don't get prompted for a password; if all that works, it should run. (this is all covered in the windows client manual). -Lloyd On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:31:34 -0400 Debbie Bassler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: We had a Windows 2003 box which had to have the C drive rebuilt a couple of weeks ago. The TSM software was on the D drive and was not disturbed. However, we just noticed the backup has not run since 6/13. The dsmsched.log has a next start date of 6/14. I believe I need to load dsmcad, the dsm.opt file contains managedservices schedule webclient andschedmod prompted. I thought I just had to issue the load dsmcad command on the client command line. However, that doesn't work. Can someone give me some insight? (obviously, I'm new at this product) Thanks, Debbie
Windows Storage Server NAS device
Anyone backing up one of these? I'm getting the impression that it's just a Windows box tuned for file sharing, and that a regular TSM Windows client will do nicely for backing it up...but I'd like to hear from anyone else who's done it. Also, anyone know if it is NDMP capable? I didn't find much about it on the MS site, unless I missed it. -Lloyd
Re: Move TSM Operational REporter to a different server
Normally I just move the .ext files as well, and if you have exported the mail/net send list you can grab that. I haven't come up with a good way to move the schedules yet. -Lloyd On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:35:34 -0500 Bill Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Anyone know of procedures for being able to move the TSM operational reporter from one Windows server to another without having to re-define everything? I can move all the *.XML files that are the report definitions, but what about all the server definitions and settings? The last time I moved this it took me all day to get everything right. Bill Boyer An Optimist is just a pessimist with no job experience. - Scott Adams
Re: Identifying session holding a drive
Here's a select/script that I use to pull that info...not perfect, but it does the job. You'll have to change the devclass name to match what you are using: DEFINE SCRIPT SHOWME_SESSION_MOUNTS DESC=Show sequential vols in use by a session /* Show Tape mounts: */ set sqldisplaymode narrow select - client_name as Client, - session_id as Session, - substr(output_vol_access,3,6) as Tape Volume - from sessions - where - output_vol_access is not null and - substr(output_vol_access,3,6) - in - (select - volume_name from volumes - where devclass_name in - (select - devclass_name from devclasses - where lower(devtype) like 'lto'- )- ) /* Show File Mounts: */ set sqldisplaymode wide select - client_name as Client, - session_id as Session, - left(substr(output_vol_access,3,90), - posstr(substr(output_vol_access,3,90),',-') -1) - as File Volume - from sessions - where - output_vol_access is not null and - left(substr(output_vol_access,3,90), - posstr(substr(output_vol_access,3,90),',-') -1) - in - (select - volume_name from volumes - where devclass_name in - (select - devclass_name from devclasses - where lower(devtype) like 'file'- )- ) Regards, -Lloyd On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:29:07 +0100 Martin Trcka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello list members, is there a way to identify which session is holding particular drive ? I've been playing with show asm, show asq commands recently which report some kind of session numbers in the output, but unfortunately they do not match session IDs presented when issuing q ses. Maybe I'm missing st. TIA, -- S pozdravem / Best Regards, Martin Trcka, IT Consultant Tech. Support Department GC System a.s., Spitalka 41, 60200 Brno, Czech Rep. mob: +420 602 452 361 fax: +420 543 537 333 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: DNS Lookups
How about putting the node's entry in the /etc/hosts file? -Lloyd On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 08:40:46 -0500 Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: I keep getting these messages on my Linux TSM server, which is on a heavily firewalled network. 1/11/2005 8:05:06 PM ANR8218W Unable to resolve address for cobra.mcvh-vcu.edu. From other threads along this topic line, I added DNSLOOKUP NO to the DSMSERV.OPT file, but these messages persist. Yes, there are some issues with the DNS names for these boxes. How do I stop these errors / the TSM server from constantly trying to do DNS lookups ? Especially when it attempts this 100's of times, each generating an error message in my daily logs.
Re: use of preallocated files in disk stgpool using devtype of file
I'm quite certain that it does the former...although I don't have any hard evidence to support that. As I understand it, volumes for devclass=file are treated pretty much like tape volumes. If there's room at the end, and your collocation settings allow it, I think it appends to the volume. Interesting question...I'll have to experiment see. -Lloyd On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:33:54 -0900 Steve Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: We are supplementing our existing ATL with a 6TB SATA. Clients will continue to backup directly to the TSM server's local SCSI disk which will get migrated to the SATA stgpool which will migrate to the ATL. Since our W2K TSM server is limited to 2TB file systems we will be allocating 3 filesystems for the 6TB of space. Because of the single path issue when using dynamically allocated scratch volumes in the SATA pool I intend to define the pool with maxscratch of 0 and preallocate all the the vols with the dsmfmt command and then define all the vols to the SATA pool. So far so good. In the case of dynamically allocated vols TSM allocates and then increments the size of the vol as needed up to the max size specified. When no longer needed the vol is then deleted so the space can be reused. When using predefined 20GB vols will TSM append to the end of the vol if it is not completely full just as it does for tape vols or does it go to the next available volume in scratch status? I suspect and hope the answer is the latter but what's the real answer? TIA -- Steve Bennett, (907) 465-5783 State of Alaska, Enterprise Technology Services, Technical Services Section -- -- Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-381-4120Direct:585-758-7371 --
Re: TSM migration from 5.1 to 5.2
Mostly because it typically takes a *very* long time to run (meaning many hours or even days) on a database of any size, and isn't usually necessary, unless something is badly broken. -Lloyd On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:41:08 -0500 Park, Rod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Just curious Why would you not do an audit DB and what all does an audit DB do? -Original Message- From: Henrik Wahlstedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TSM migration from 5.1 to 5.2 No! I would not do an audit db if I dont have been told to do one by IBM support, or if I have strong evidence that I need to do an audit. The upgrade itself does not require an audit db! //Henrik |+- || Lawrence Clark | || [EMAIL PROTECTED]| || ATE.NY.US | || Sent by: ADSM: Dist | || Stor Manager | || [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || | || | || 2004-08-26 15:09 | || Please respond to | || ADSM: Dist Stor | || Manager | || | |+- -- - | | | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | cc: (bcc: Henrik Wahlstedt) | | Subject: TSM migration from 5.1 to 5.2 | -- - | Hi: We are getting set for the migration from TSM 5.1 to 5.2. For people who have already done this, did you precede the install of the 5.2 software with an 'audit db fix=yes'? --- The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is intended for the addressee only. Any unauthorised use, dissemination of the information or copying of this message is prohibited. If you are not the addressee, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete this message. Thank you. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, then you have received this email in error and any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Please notify us immediately of your unintended receipt by reply and then delete this email and your reply. Tyson Foods, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates will not be held liable to any person resulting from the unintended or unauthorized use of any information contained in this email or as a result of any additions or deletions of information originally contained in this email. -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: archive problem/question
Given that you've only got 100,000 files in the directory, and it has inspected 3,000,000 files, I'd guess something is wrong. I've seen Unix systems that have inadvertently gotten circular link definitions, and TSM will blindly follow them over over again, showing this type of behaviour. You might want to set archsymlinkasfile=no on the client and try it again (but read the client manual for this first, to make sure that this does what you want it to do). -Lloyd On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:19:36 -0500 Cain, Jason (Corporate) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: I am in the process of doing an archive for the first time of a unix file system. The entire node has done backups before, and this is the first archive of a single file system. The file system I am archiving has about 100,000 files in it; however the archive has been inspecting over 3,000,000 files and has taken over a day just to inspect. Can someone please explain the process of the first time doing an archive, and if there is a way to speed the process. Jason Cain -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: File location
Joni, There probably isn't a correct location. If using filesystems, I usually put my primary db copy under /tsmdbpri, with the mirror copy under /tsmdbmir, and the recovery log under /tsmlogpri and /tsmlogmir respectively. I also have customers that stick them under /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/db and /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/log. If you have mirrored storage for the DB and log, then you probably won't use the TSM mirroring facilities. And, of course, if you are running raw volumes, then there is no corresponding mount point. So...it depends. You can put it where you like, but I'd recommend something easy to type, because you will have to type the path in sooner or later, and /tsmsyspri/db0.dsm is a lot easier to type (and remember) than /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/etc/etc/etc. As to volhist and devconfig, I put them in a couple of different locations, and on different disk devices, and make sure to get a copy that winds up off of the machine, whether by e-mail, ftp, or a DRM plan file that gets sent off each day. HTH! -Lloyd On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 09:13:18 -0400 Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello! If the options file for the tsm server is located at /usr/tivoli/tsm/server/bin, then where would be the recommended location for the device configuration and volume history file? The database and recovery log will be located at /tsmdev/log/** and /tsmdev/db/** and the storage pools will be /tsmdev/stgpool/**. Would this be a correct location/setup for an AIX TSM server 5.2? I am very new to this environment and I am trying to set this up and move off of MVS. Any suggestions/ideas would be appreciated! Thanks! Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: no status of empty when querying volume
Chris, When a tape is scratch, it is not assigned to any pool, and therefore TSM does not report it as an empty volume. You can define a volume to a storage pool: define volume stgpoolname volname And until you write something to that volume, it will appear as empty when you issue your q vol. -Lloyd On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:44:25 -0400 Christopher Zahorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello, I'm very new to TSM. I have a question to why there are no tapes listed as empty. I have 90 tapes in my scratch list but when I do the following command: q volume status=empty , I get a returned message indicating the following:ANR2034E QUERY VOLUME: No match found using this criteria. I then perform the following command: q volume - to list everything in my volumes and the status of the tapes are either FULL or FILLING. Thanks, Chris. Christopher S. Zahorak, BCS Senior Systems Programmer University of Windsor IT Services, Rm 203 401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4 P: (519)253-3000 ext. 2762 F: (519)973-7083 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: HP-UX 11.23 (IA-64 Itanium) TSM client
From what we were told, the native HP-UX Itanium client won't be available till Q4 sometime. -Lloyd On Fri, 28 May 2004 14:23:32 -0600 Stan Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Is there a TSM b/a client for HP-UX 11.23 (IA-64 Itanium)? I checked the URL below and searched at www.ibm.com. Perhaps I used a poor search string but I couldn't find (or recognize that I found a hit for) the desired TSM client. If there is such a client, please point me at the URL to download it. Thanks. -Stan Peters Brigham Young University At 04:41 PM 2/24/2004 Tuesday, Sam Giallanza wrote: · Version Release Information Page WWW Location : http://www-306.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliStor ageManagerVersionRelease.html Cordially, Sam J. Giallanza Tivoli Certified Consultant Field Issues Manager Field Input Communications (FIC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 520.799.5512 - T/L 321.5512 -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Linux Bare Metal Restore
Check out Mondo: http://www.mondorescue.org The prerequisites are a pain, but it works fine once set up. Gives you sysback-like capability, and understands things like SW raid and LVM. -Lloyd On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:34:15 -0400 David E Ehresman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Anyone looking at Cristie BMR for Linux? If so, what do you think? If not, what are you doing for Linux BMR? David Ehresman University of Louisville -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Please help me NOT migrate
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:45:03 -0400 Eliza Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: This is something I can look into. I can paritiion the 3494 so each server has its own frame, tape drives, and tapes. But will the 3494 control manager get confused when 2 TSM servers try to talk to it at the same time? Doesn't one has to be the Library Manager while the other the 'slave'? Eliza Nope...just have to assign different private/scratch categories on the second server from the first. The 3494 as it's own built-in library manager that can handle (I think) 32 attached hosts. -Lloyd -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Please help me NOT migrate
Yes. Based on the wording in her post, it sounded like she just wanted to attach another (test) host to the library, which, as you say, is easy. But it also sounded like she was thinking of partitioning the 3494 as you would a 3584, with specific slots assigned to each host, which is not necessary (don't even think you *can* do it that way). -Lloyd On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:07:50 -0600 Ben Bullock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Doesn't it depend? If she wants to dedicate certain drives to certain TSM servers, she can do that simply with the functions built into the 3590 library. Piece of cake, we do that on all our libraries. If she wants to connect the drives to both the AIX and Solaris host at the same time and have them ~share~ the drives, she would need to use the TSM library manager function so that each TSM server knows who is using the drives at any time. Right? Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lloyd Dieter Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Please help me NOT migrate On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:45:03 -0400 Eliza Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: This is something I can look into. I can paritiion the 3494 so each server has its own frame, tape drives, and tapes. But will the 3494 control manager get confused when 2 TSM servers try to talk to it at the same time? Doesn't one has to be the Library Manager while the other the 'slave'? Eliza Nope...just have to assign different private/scratch categories on the second server from the first. The 3494 as it's own built-in library manager that can handle (I think) 32 attached hosts. -Lloyd -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 - -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: TSM Node Summary
How about: q event * * begindate=-1 originator=client node=HMPG1027 -Lloyd On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:01:45 -0500 Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello all! I was just wondering if there is a simple way of running a script or select statement that will give me the output below? Thanks! 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4952I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects inspected: 819 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4953I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects archived: 819 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4958I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects updated: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4960I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects rebound: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4957I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects deleted: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4970I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects expired: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4959I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects failed: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4961I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of bytes transferred: 74.58 MB 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4963I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Data transfer time: 17.71 sec 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4966I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Network data transfer rate:4,311.16 KB/sec 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4967I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Aggregate data transfer rate: 2,452.54 KB/sec 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4968I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Objects compressed by:0% 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4964I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Elapsed processing time:00:00:31 Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: TSM Node Summary
Whoops...That was supposed to be: q actlog begindate=-1 originator=client node=HMPG1027 Sorry! How about: q event * * begindate=-1 originator=client node=HMPG1027 -Lloyd On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 13:01:45 -0500 Joni Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello all! I was just wondering if there is a simple way of running a script or select statement that will give me the output below? Thanks! 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4952I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects inspected: 819 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4953I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects archived: 819 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4958I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects updated: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4960I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects rebound: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4957I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects deleted: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4970I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects expired: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4959I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of objects failed: 0 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4961I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Total number of bytes transferred: 74.58 MB 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4963I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Data transfer time: 17.71 sec 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4966I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Network data transfer rate:4,311.16 KB/sec 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4967I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Aggregate data transfer rate: 2,452.54 KB/sec 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4968I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Objects compressed by:0% 01/27/2004 11:33:23 ANE4964I (Session: 21383, Node: HMPG1027) Elapsed processing time:00:00:31 Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Linux client pathology
5 Million files on ext2? Hope you never have to fsck that monster. You may want to talk to the admin about using reiserfs -Lloyd On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:49:39 -0500 Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 11:29:59 -0500 Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have been backing up a Linux client with about five million files on it. The system administrator has told me that he recently updated the include/exclude files to exclude a portion of /var that accounts for 5 million files in /var??? amazing :-) The messages for an electronic mail system with several thousand users reside in a subdirectory of /var. The messages undoubtedly should have gone into a separate file system, even if the file system's mount point were in /var. most of the file. I have not so far been able to verify this be inspecting the configuration files myself. Ever since the change, we have been seeing strange and very troublesome behavior. The client did the admin use exclude or exclude.dir, the latter may save you a lot of directory traversal. I have restored dsm.opt, dsm.sys, and the include/exclude file to a system I have access to. The change date on the include/exclude file lines up with the Linux administrator's statements. He used an exclude.dir. The other two files had not changed in almost six months. All three files look normal for our site, with the exception of two anomalies that have no obvious connection to the current problem. One anomaly is the presence of a nodename statement in dsm.sys. The node name specified is the same as the host name. The second anomaly is a schedmode of 'polling' rather than 'prompted'. This is needed because there is a firewall between the client and the TSM server. will send about eight gigabytes of data to the server over the course of about twelve hours. At that point data transfer will slow to a crawl and all other sessions and processes will perform poorly until the session is cancelled. We have been through three iterations so far, transferring about 23 gigabytes from client to server (I stopped the last one at about 7 gigabytes). About one gigabyte out of the 23 can be accounted for by data written to storage pools. I usually don't get the various session statistics messages. In the one case where I did, they reported 0 objects deleted and only 55 objects expired. Depending on the filesystem used, Linux can be very slow in listing large dirs. The default listing requires in memory sorting of the dir (TSM does this as well) and with very large dirs, with lots of files, you may suffer from horrific performance on the client just from listing. Most likely, a ls in that one dir will either crash or hang forever The file system is EXT2. As far as I know, no one directory contains an outrageous number of files. There is one directory near the top of the hierarchy with a subdirectory for each of the several thousand users. Past experience helping the administrator set up restores shows tens to hundreds of files in individual directories further down the hierarchy. I would expect a substantial amount of data movement from client to server after excluding large numbers of files as the client told the server to expire the files. However, this would presumably be comparable to the amount of file status information sent from server to client each night before the change. This was about a gigabyte. I would expect that your server has never had a decent back-up of that one dir, that TSM is still listing that dir since the admin didn't use exclude.dir and that you have very files to expire. As far as we can tell, backups of /var had been finishing successfully on most days (albeit later in the morning than we would have liked). Our entire TSM database is only about 20 gigabytes. The client code is at the 5.1.6.0 level. The Linux kernel is at the 2.4.20-24 level. The TSM server is at the 5.1.7.2 level and runs under OS/390. 5 milion object would eat about 1.5 GB (give or take half a GB) expiration of these files must be noticable on your server. It accounts for about half of the time we spend on expiration. Most of the other half is due to another, slightly smaller mail server run by a different part of our organization. -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Backsets To Removable Media
Newer versions of AIX come with the Linux Toolbox, and on that are the mkisofs/cdrecord utilities (may be under the cdrtools package...can't recall). That's what smitty uses to generate mksysb's to DVD-RAM. That may do what you want. -Lloyd On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:05:16 -0500 Prather, Wanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: The vendor of the DVD-RAM drive normally provides the software to write to the DVD. -Original Message- From: Renee Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 4:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backsets To Removable Media We are testing the feature on TSM that allows you to generate a backset and copy it to removable media. Our server (7026-6H1) has a 4.7 GB SCSI-2 DVD-RAM drive. We wish to cut the backsets to DVDs. The Admin Guide says that once the backup set is generated, you must use 3rd-party software to label and copy the backset to your media. Any suggestions of software or strategies to accomplish this on an AIX box? OS System: AIX 5.2.0.1 TSM Level: 5.2.0.2 -- Renee Davis University of Houston -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Errors using tapes on H-drives in 3494
Have those new scratch tapes been labelled? -Lloyd On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:15:34 +0100 brian welsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Hello, TSM 5.1.7 on AIX 5.1, Library 3494 and 4x 3590 H-drives FC-attached. We are in the process of taking into production 4 new 3590 H-drives. We were using E-drives. Last weekend we set all the tape (1100) to read-only status, and check-in some new scratches (using collocation). Now we need to move data as soon as possible. When we start move data with a tape written on an E-drive, it moves the data to a scratch volume. So far so good, but when the scratch tape is defined in an storage pool we see the message anr8359, Media fault detected and status is changed again to read-only. Is this normal, and/or do we have to run some other commands on the tape? Two years ago we were in the same process from B-drives to E-drives, and have no trouble at all. Thanx, Brian. _ MSN Zoeken helpt je om de gekste dingen te vinden! http://search.msn.nl -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: TSM on RH AS 2.1
I have something similar working with Adaptec 3944 (differential SCSI) and Symbios (ultra scsi) adapters. -Lloyd On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 22:36:22 -0500 Hector Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Greeting, Customer would like to have TSM 5.2 on Redhat AS 2.1 on Intel Xeon and DLT tape autoloader with 8 - 10 slots Any working installation out there with the above requirements? Would like to know the type of SCSI controller is being used. Any help would be much appreciated? Thanks in advance. Regards, Hector Chan
Re: Anyone done BMR on Linux??
You may want to have a peek at Mondo: http://www.mondorescue.org Once you get it set up, that will give you your mksysb-style bootable media. It's pretty useful for getting a Linux box back quickly. I don't recommend it by itself, however...I use it as a quick method to get the box back to where I can restore from TSM...and whatever you do, test it before you bet the farm on it. It tends to be very finicky about certain things. And just because it works OK on one kernel/release/update, don't assume that it's OK forevermore. -Lloyd On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:42:30 -0500 Bill Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Anyone care to share any experiences on doing Linux BMR? I've read through the redbook Disaster Recovery Strategies using TSM as well as the Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-Howto. I have AIX background, and trying to equate things...is the stage-1 backup where you tar the system like doing the mksysb on AIX? Except it's not bootable. How often would you need to do this stage-1 backup? If it's not as often as my incremental backups with TSM, then the restore with TSM would then have to include the system files to pick up any changesright? Bill Boyer Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield. - ?? -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Cleaning Machine for 3590 cartridges
, or within StorageTek silo)! Machine type does not mean automatically hardware. For example before joining Passport Advantage, TSM was machine type/model 5697-TSM and later 5698-TSM! Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 - -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Move nodedata - what is moved first
Not entirely true, I believe. If the directory tree for a particular node exceeds a certain size, it DOES get stored in a storage pool...although I'm a little foggy as to what that size is. That's the whole idea behind the DIRMC parameter...sot that you can control where the directory info winds up in the event that it does go to a storage pool. -Lloyd On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:02:07 +0200 Remco Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:12:34 -0400 Marc Levitan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would happen if there was a site disaster and the data was only on the disk which is no longer available to perform restores? I guess what I am asking is, without sending DIRMC off-site, can you recover from a site disaster? Even better, directories are never stored in storagepools, just in the database, so in case of a disaster, you will never loose any data as long as you have off-site db backups. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl High Performance Computing Tel. +31 20 592 8008Fax. +31 20 668 3167 I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end. -- Douglas Adams
Re: [tsm] Re: tsa600.nlm memory leak on NW6 client
Good suggestion...I originally had it that way, when we were running the 5.1.5.0 client...but there's apparently an issue with that version of the client and running managedservices webclient schedule (per TSM support), so we dropped dsmcad altogether and went with load dsmc sched. Since then, we've gone to 5.1.6.6, and the issue with dsmcad is supposed to be fixed, so I'll give it a shot. Thanks, -Lloyd On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:02:14 -0600 Matt Zufelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Loading TSANDS is only necessary if you're backing up eDirectory itself. Not sure why the admin wouldn't want it loaded, but I guess that's a different issue. Regarding the memory leak: I've seen it documented somewhere (though I don't remember where) that the problem isn't a leak so much as it is dsmc.nlm not releasing resources (but then again, that sounds a lot like a leak). The more files you back up, the more memory that is required by dsmc. The problem is, even after the backup is finished, dsmc.nlm does not release the memory resources it has consumed. Over a period of time, the memory usage grows until it reaches a point that it is affecting server performance. Once you unload and then reload dsmc.nlm, the memo ry is released. I would recommend switching your method of loading the scheduler. Instead of loading dsmc sched to handle the scheduling, add schedule to the managedservices line in your dsm.opt file. For example: MANAGEDSERVICES schedule webclient Then, when you load dsmcad.nlm, it will handle the scheduling instead of dsmc.nlm. The advantage of this method is reduced memory usage. When it is time to perform the backups, dsmcad loads dsmc, does the backup, and then unloads dsmc thereby freeing the memory. This method has worked wonders for memory utilization on our servers here. Matt Zufelt Southern Utah University [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/26/2003 4:53:51 PM All, Environment: AIX 5.1 ML4 server with TSM 5.1.7.0 code. Client is a NW6 machine, 2GB memory, with TSA600.NLM (6.00.05), TSANDS.NLM(version unknown), and SMDR.NLM (6.50.03). Backing up via 100/full network connection. For reasons that I do not fully understand, the Netware admin does not want to load TSANDS, which is apparently used only to back up the NDS. They only wish to get certain user files. The backups run OK manually (dsmc i), but if I load dsmc sched and let the scheduler handle it (server prompted), memory usage goes through the roof...after one night, TSA600 will be using well over 1GB, and close to 2GB on the second night. The second night will not complete. Is TSANDS *required*? I'm thinking that this might be the cause for the memory consumption that I'm seeing. Any comments would be appreciated. -Lloyd
tsa600.nlm memory leak on NW6 client
All, Environment: AIX 5.1 ML4 server with TSM 5.1.7.0 code. Client is a NW6 machine, 2GB memory, with TSA600.NLM (6.00.05), TSANDS.NLM (version unknown), and SMDR.NLM (6.50.03). Backing up via 100/full network connection. For reasons that I do not fully understand, the Netware admin does not want to load TSANDS, which is apparently used only to back up the NDS. They only wish to get certain user files. The backups run OK manually (dsmc i), but if I load dsmc sched and let the scheduler handle it (server prompted), memory usage goes through the roof...after one night, TSA600 will be using well over 1GB, and close to 2GB on the second night. The second night will not complete. Is TSANDS *required*? I'm thinking that this might be the cause for the memory consumption that I'm seeing. Any comments would be appreciated. -Lloyd
Re: [tsm] Re: Problems with TSM on Linux Server
Us also...I haven't tried TSM on anything above RH 7.2, and my first instinct would be to back the OS down to that level and use the kernel they spec. So far, it's been pretty stable. -Lloyd On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 20:51:15 -0300 Patrick Boutilier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Mark, We run TSM server 5.1.6.5 on RedHat 7.2 with 2.4.9-31 kernel without any problems. Mark Farber wrote: Hi TSM'rs Being a Linux bigot, I managed to convince a new client to opt for a Linux TSM server over Windows. I am now starting to wish I had just gone for Windows. Unless you can help I might have to. Here's the problem. Server Version 5.2.0.2 on Redhat 9 Client Version 5.1.6.2 on Redhat 7.3 The TSM server has no tape library or drive but is totally file based (400GB using software raid0) Client backups are done via the crontab using /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc incr The server just hangs during a client backup operation.nothing in the activity report. Eventually the client times out but unfortunately the dsmc incr stays in the process queue. The next day, cron dutifully fires off another backup and so it goes. Eventually after a call from a frustrated customer, I have to start the server manually and run the backup manually. (Seriously not good!!) Also, if a backup is running and you happen to do one too many q act requests, the server hangs. By the way, only the TSM application hangs, not Linux itself. Has anyone experience with Linux TSM server and seen similar problems? Regards Mark -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: [tsm] Re: 3590 Upgrades help required - Solaris.
Yes, I see what you are referring to...but if you click on the IBM Magstar 3590H link, it takes you (after submitting your support login) to: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?rs=663uid=swg21054290 And here the title of the doc is What are the device driver changes and updates in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.1.1?. And as I indicated, although it is not supported on the no-longer-supported 4.2 releases, I can state that it works, as I have two customers that have been running with them (fibre 3590H's on AIX 4.3.3) for some time now (many months). I guess that you'll have to weigh whether you're willing to run in an officially unsupported configuration. My recommendation would be to jump up the 5.X releases. -Lloyd On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:41:05 +0100 Farren Minns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Looking on the IBM site, it says that the H1A drives are supported for both 4.2.2 and 5.1.1 levels of TSM. I'm starting to get confused. Device Capacity AIX HPUX SUN WIN |-- || | IBM Magstar 3590 | | | B11/B1A 10GB | | | Base | | | IBM Magstar 3590 E11/E1A | | | 20GB Base | | | IBM Magstar 3590 | | | H11/H1A 30GB | | | 4.2.2 | | | | | 5.1.1 || | | | See (very long) link below. || | | | http://www-3.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBM_TSM_Suppo| | rted_Devices_for_AIXHPSUNWN.html#IBM%20Magstar%20Tape%20Products || | | | Farren Minns | | |-- || | | |-- ||+---+ ||| Lloyd Dieter| | | || [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | || Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | || Manager| cc: | | || [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [tsm] |Re:|| | 3590 Upgrades help required . | | || 08/15/2003 09:16 PM | | | || Please respond to ADSM:| | | || Dist Stor Manager | | | || | | | |+---+- |---| Yes, but from experience, it will work at 4.2.X...although it is officially unsupported. -Lloyd On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:46:03 +0300 Zlatko Krastev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: -- We're running TSM 4.2.2.12 ... To get 3590H supported you must reach at least v5.1.6 !!! When you reach that point, the README will guide you. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Farren Minns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14.08.2003 13:48 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: 3590 Upgrades help required . Morning All TSMers :) and I will be free to start running some movedata commands to start consolidating tapes (using the new higher compression). ... 3590H upgrading is fully covered in the server README file. I must apologise for being a bit thick here, but exactly which README is this. I can find no reference to necessary steps when upgrading from B1A to the H1A 3590 drives in the manuals or the the README file in /opt/tivoli/tsm/server etc (I'm running TSM on Solaris by the way). Can anyone tell me exactly where I can get this information from. Also, has anyone else out
Re: [tsm] Re: 3590 Upgrades help required .
Yes, but from experience, it will work at 4.2.X...although it is officially unsupported. -Lloyd On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 22:46:03 +0300 Zlatko Krastev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: -- We're running TSM 4.2.2.12 ... To get 3590H supported you must reach at least v5.1.6 !!! When you reach that point, the README will guide you. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Farren Minns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14.08.2003 13:48 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:3590 Upgrades help required . Morning All TSMers :) and I will be free to start running some movedata commands to start consolidating tapes (using the new higher compression). ... 3590H upgrading is fully covered in the server README file. I must apologise for being a bit thick here, but exactly which README is this. I can find no reference to necessary steps when upgrading from B1A to the H1A 3590 drives in the manuals or the the README file in /opt/tivoli/tsm/server etc (I'm running TSM on Solaris by the way). Can anyone tell me exactly where I can get this information from. Also, has anyone else out there running TSM on Solaris and has been through a similar upgrade (see information below on the upgrade to be performed). The planned upgrade is as follows :- We're running TSM 4.2.2.12 on a Solaris 2.7 server. It's connected to an IBM 3494 library with two 3590 B1A drives (SCSI). We are going to be upgrading the drives from B1A to H1A models. Many thanks Farren Minns - John Wiley Sons Ltd |++ |---|| Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | || Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor| | || Manager | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | || [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cc: | ||| Subject: Re: | || 08/11/2003 12:22 PM | Upgrading 3590 Tape Drives??? | || Please respond to ADSM: Dist| | || Stor Manager| | ||| | |++ |---| ... We are soon going to be upgrading our 3590 B1A drives to the H1A models so that we can squeeze loads more on the tapes and free up slots in our soon-to-be-filled library. Now, as far as I am aware, this is a relatively simple operation. Am I right in thinking that all that needs to be done after the drives have been upgraded is to mark all tapes that are presently in the on-site Tapepool(in the library) as read only. After this, only scratch tapes will be used and I will be free to start running some movedata commands to start consolidating tapes (using the new higher compression). ... 3590H upgrading is fully covered in the server README file. *** ** This email transmission is confidential and intended for the person or organisation it is addressed to. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute, or disseminate the information, open any attachment, or take any action in reliance of it. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states otherwise. Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check, as the sender takes no responsibility for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. *** ** -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: [tsm] 3590 Upgrades help required .
I know this was in the 4.1.5.0 README for the 3590E drive conversion, and in the 5.1.6.0 readme for the 3590H upgrade. It may appear in others as well. I believe I have a copy if you have trouble finding it; contact me directly if you want me to send it over. Regards, -Lloyd On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:48:11 +0100 Farren Minns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote thusly: Morning All TSMers :) and I will be free to start running some movedata commands to start consolidating tapes (using the new higher compression). ... 3590H upgrading is fully covered in the server README file. I must apologise for being a bit thick here, but exactly which README is this. I can find no reference to necessary steps when upgrading from B1A to the H1A 3590 drives in the manuals or the the README file in /opt/tivoli/tsm/server etc (I'm running TSM on Solaris by the way). Can anyone tell me exactly where I can get this information from. Also, has anyone else out there running TSM on Solaris and has been through a similar upgrade (see information below on the upgrade to be performed). The planned upgrade is as follows :- We're running TSM 4.2.2.12 on a Solaris 2.7 server. It's connected to an IBM 3494 library with two 3590 B1A drives (SCSI). We are going to be upgrading the drives from B1A to H1A models. Many thanks Farren Minns - John Wiley Sons Ltd |++ |---|| Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | | || Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor| | | || Manager | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | || [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cc: | | ||| Subject: Re: | | || 08/11/2003 12:22 PM | Upgrading 3590 Tape Drives??? | | || Please respond to ADSM: Dist| | | || Stor Manager| | | ||| | | |++ |---| ... We are soon going to be upgrading our 3590 B1A drives to the H1A models so that we can squeeze loads more on the tapes and free up slots in our soon-to-be-filled library. Now, as far as I am aware, this is a relatively simple operation. Am I right in thinking that all that needs to be done after the drives have been upgraded is to mark all tapes that are presently in the on-site Tapepool(in the library) as read only. After this, only scratch tapes will be used and I will be free to start running some movedata commands to start consolidating tapes (using the new higher compression). ... 3590H upgrading is fully covered in the server README file. *** ** This email transmission is confidential and intended for the person or organisation it is addressed to. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute, or disseminate the information, open any attachment, or take any action in reliance of it. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states otherwise. Although this email has been scanned for viruses you should rely on your own virus check, as the sender takes no responsibility for any damage arising out of any bug or virus infection. *** ** -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 - -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: [tsm] SNAPSHOTCACHELOCATION
I believe you have to exclude it, if memory serves. -Lloyd On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 16:43:18 -0400 Bill Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have: include.fs c: snapshotcachelocation=d:\tsmcache coded in my DSM.OPT file and I run a fill incremental on this client, does TSM automagically exclude the location specified for the SNAPSHOTCACHELOCATION?? Or do I need to add an Exclude.dir for it? Bill Boyer Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windshield. - ?? -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: [tsm] Re: SNAPSHOTCACHELOCATION
Whoops...you're right. I was thinking of the subfilecachepath for journaling. My mistake. -Lloyd On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:33:07 -0400 Richard Sims [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have: include.fs c: snapshotcachelocation=d:\tsmcache coded in my DSM.OPT file and I run a fill incremental on this client, does TSM automagically exclude the location specified for the SNAPSHOTCACHELOCATION?? Or do I need to add an Exclude.dir for it? I think you mean include.image Given that the location specifies where the Old Blocks File is to be created, which TSM is to subsequently use for the image backup, it seems contradictory to attempt to exclude it. Richard Sims, BU
Re: upgrade from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1 with db and log on ESS
Are you sure you need to remove the old SDD? Can't you just update? Haven't done that version, but I don't recall having to do this in the past -Lloyd On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 12:55:09 -0400 Eliza Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi TSMers, I am looking into upgrading the server from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.1. The TSM database and log are on ESS 2105 volumes. To upgrade to SDD 1.4 I will have to delete all the definitions for the db and log volumes, delete old version of SDD and install the new one. Has anyone done this before and what are the gotchas? What do I gain from going to 64 bits. The server only has 3G of memory. I am planning on remaining on 32 bits and go to 64 bits in the future. P660 with 4 processors TSM server 5.1.1.6 on AIX 4.3.3 3494 with six 3590E1A drives IBM ESS 2105 disks (db and log volumes) 2109 SAN switches SDD 1.3.1.3 Thanks in advance, Eliza Lau Virginia Tech Computing Center -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 SMS:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: Disk errors
My opinion: yepper...looks like it's toast. Hope your copypool's up to date Good luck! -Lloyd On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:27:53 -0700 Gill, Geoffrey L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like a disk has gone bad so I'd like to get some thoughts. The disk is unreadable, the diskvol file is gone but TSM shows 1.6% used and still online. With the errors pumping into the log should I just go ahead and take it offline because it looks like it won't stop. ANRD blkdisk.c(1572): ThreadId91 Error -1 reading from disk /adsmstg12/diskvol.12, errno=5 (There is an input or output error.). ANRD blkdisk.c(1574): ThreadId91 File seek value is 23759200256, startBlock 5800586 ANRD blkdisk.c(1577): ThreadId91 IoVector count: 1, contents: ANRD blkdisk.c(1579): ThreadId91Item: 0, base: 0x5dcfc000, len: 32768 ANRD blkdisk.c(1582): ThreadId91 Batch count: 8, contents: ANRD blkdisk.c(1584): ThreadId91Item: 0, block 5800586, buffer: 0x5dcfc000 ANRD blkdisk.c(1584): ThreadId91Item: 1, block 5800587, buffer: 0x5dcfd000 ANRD blkdisk.c(1584): ThreadId91Item: 2, block 5800588, buffer: 0x5dcfe000 ANRD blkdisk.c(1584): ThreadId91Item: 3, block 5800589, buffer: 0x5dcff000 ANRD blkdisk.c(1584): ThreadId91Item: 4, block 5800590, buffer: 0x5dd0 ANRD blkdisk.c(1584): ThreadId91Item: 5, block 5800591, buffer: 0x5dd01000 ANRD blkdisk.c(1584): ThreadId91Item: 6, block 5800592, buffer: 0x5dd02000 ANRD blkdisk.c(1584): ThreadId91Item: 7, block 5800593, buffer: 0x5dd03000 ANRD blkdisk.c(1591): ThreadId91 Retrying read operation 1 time ANRD blkdisk.c(1572): ThreadId91 Error -1 reading from disk /adsmstg12/diskvol.12, errno=5 (There is an input or output error.). Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154 -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 SMS:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance
Are you seeing this behavior for backups/restores, or just tape-tape operations? If you are getting this for backups/restore, try using a disk storage pool, if you are not already doing so. The key to success with LTO1 drives is keeping their buffers full and the drive in streaming mode; if you are trying to do directly to tape, you may not be able to feed them fast enough to keep them streaming. Once they start working start/stop, performance just falls apart. If you are seeing poor performance tape-tape (reclamation, copy pool backups) and are using a disk pool, try flushing the disk pool out to tape before you begin the tape-tape operation. I think you'll see a significant performance gain. -Lloyd On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:11:51 -0500 Colby Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We in the process of moving to an IBM 3580 external LTO drive for manual offsite vaulting of primary storage pools. I have read several older reports on http://msgs.adsm.org about poor performance with TSM, LTO and small files. We are experiencing the same behavior and I was just curious if anybody has ran into this lately. We see about 10-15GB/hour with small files and 42-57GB/hour on larger files. We are running TSM 5.1.6.5 on Win2k SP3. The drive is an external IBM 3580 and is the only device hooked to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller. We are also running v5.0.5.4 of the IBM 3580 drivers. I maxed out the following server options (which helped): MoveBatchSize 1000 TxnGroupMax 256 I also set the drive parameters via ntutil as described in this Redbook (which also helped): http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg246268.pdf Anybody else ran into these problems? Thanks, Colby -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 SMS:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: TSM LTO 3580 Performance
Also...an Adaptec 2940 is an older SCSI-2 card...10MB/sec, isn't it? Maybe that's an issue -Lloyd On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 08:11:51 -0500 Colby Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We in the process of moving to an IBM 3580 external LTO drive for manual offsite vaulting of primary storage pools. I have read several older reports on http://msgs.adsm.org about poor performance with TSM, LTO and small files. We are experiencing the same behavior and I was just curious if anybody has ran into this lately. We see about 10-15GB/hour with small files and 42-57GB/hour on larger files. We are running TSM 5.1.6.5 on Win2k SP3. The drive is an external IBM 3580 and is the only device hooked to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller. We are also running v5.0.5.4 of the IBM 3580 drivers. I maxed out the following server options (which helped): MoveBatchSize 1000 TxnGroupMax 256 I also set the drive parameters via ntutil as described in this Redbook (which also helped): http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/sg246268.pdf Anybody else ran into these problems? Thanks, Colby -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 SMS:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: NEED HELP - Restore performance
Zoltan, You've probably tried this already, but just in case...have you cranked up resourceutilization and maxnummp? Maybe no-query restores? Just a thought... -Lloyd On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:45:46 -0500 Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a zOS TSM 4.2.3.2 server. The client server is AIX 4.3 with TSM client 4.2.3.0 We had a recent hardware failure/disaster which resulted in a complete wipe of 250GB+ of storage on an AIX 4.3 system. To complicate matters, this is one of our email system, with 22-MILLION files comprising the 250GB. So, we start the *BIG* restore. To put it quaintly, restore performance sucks.We are averaging .5GB per hour. At this rate, it will take 15-20 DAYS ! I have gone through the TSM Performance Tuning guide, to no avail. I had pretty much done everything the book suggests, long ago, with the exception of pagefixing storage for the VSAM/BSAM reads. Even checked its recommendations for the AIX system for things like TCPIP settings, etc. The AIX system is hardly breathing hard, when it comes to CPU utilization. What can I look at to do anything I can to speed things up ? Can I run multiple restores of different filesystems ? -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: TSM Client OS Availability
Rob, Not quite...at least from IBM. ROC software has (had?) Backpack i/X, which could use a TSM server as a repository. We found the bad news was that it cost about as much as the TSM code did. Things may have changed...last time I looked at it was about a year ago. I've used Backpack in a past life, and had good luck with it. If you can get past the sticker price, I would expect that it would perform well. Good luck! -Lloyd On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:24:38 -0600 Rob Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Is anyone know if a TSM client is available for MPE version 7 OS on a HP3000 node? Thanks, Rob -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: TSM on Linux
Etienne, Probably not. I tried this as well, and ultimately had to back down to RH 7.2 with a kernel upgrade to get things working. The TSMSCSI modules appear to be VERY fussy about loading into *exactly* the kernel specified. Once you meet the requirements, however, it seems to work pretty well, although it still complains about tainting the kernel when you insert the modules. Note that I only have this working in a lab environment...haven't tried it on anything production (yet). Regards, -Lloyd On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:54:12 +0100 GUILLAUMONT Etienne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install TSM 5.1.5 server on Linux but I have a problem because my level is 7.3 red hat with a 2.4.18.24 kernel and for the devices, TSM requires an older kernel. Is there any possibility to have TSM work on my linux level ? Etienne GUILLAUMONT e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] RGB Technologie Parc d'Innovation, Bâtiment PYTHAGORE 11 Rue Jean SAPIDUS 67400 ILLKIRCH Tél : 03 90 40 60 60 Fax : 03 90 40 60 61 -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: LTO 3583 Drive errors with TSM 5.1.5.2 on AIX 5.1
Zlatko (et al), I'm not sure that info in the redbook applies any longer...I wrote that particular piece, and although it was valid at the time, remember that it was written for the 4.1 TSM code/firmware etc. It may or may not apply any longer; I'd check with support before accepting that as gospel. -Lloyd On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:41:37 -0500 Rivera, Jose Spri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an interesting one - Also applies to FC6228 http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/library/hardware_docs/sa23/2325 50.pdf pg 24 Will try on new tsm server Thanks Zlatko Jose Rivera Ris Infrastructure 908-298-3568 1-800-PAGE-MCI#1376812 -Original Message- From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO 3583 Drive errors with TSM 5.1.5.2 on AIX 5.1 Henry, sorry for delayed answer (have been on a training and was unable to read all mail on time). As expected you did not changed the adapter (to handle larger blocks for tape operations). Look at max_xfer_size parameter - it has to be changed to 0x100 (one zero more, in decimal from 1 MB to 16 MB). This is NOT described in any of TSM's manuals :-(( It can be found as Important note on p.52 in redbook Using TSM in SAN Environment (SG24-6132-00), Chapter 3Building a SAN Environment, section 3.1.1. RS/6000. Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Henrry Aranda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29.01.2003 23:01 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: LTO 3583 Drive errors with TSM 5.1.5.2 on AIX 5.1 Zlatko No, I did not changed any settings for the FC HBA. The output of the AIX command lsattr -El fcsN are the following: - For fcs0 bus_intr_lvl 20 Bus interruptlevel False intr_priority 3 Interrupt priority False bus_io_addr 0x2ec00Bus I/O addressFalse bus_mem_addr 0xc802 Bus memory address False lg_term_dma 0x20 N/ATrue max_xfer_size 0x10 Maximum Transfer Size True num_cmd_elems 200Maximum number of COMMANDS to queue to the adapter True pref_alpa 0x1Preferred AL_PATrue sw_fc_class 2 FC Class for FabricTrue init_link al INIT Link flagsTrue - For fcs1 ... max_xfer_size 0x10 Maximum Transfer Size True ... * This message and any attachments is solely for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, use or distribution of the information included in this message is prohibited -- Please immediately and permanently delete. -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: 3494 and dsmserv restore db
Steve, Attached (at the end) is a snippet from a howto on IBM's support site that you may want to look over... -Lloyd On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:04:43 -0500 Steve Roder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, According to the doc., dsmserv restore db only supports manual and scsi libraries. Has anyone on this list restored a db via a 3590 drive inside a 3494? Since the 3494 is not libtype=scsi, I am thinking that I will have to put my 3494 into pause or manual mode, and fake TSM into thinking the 3590 is standalone, and then manually insert the dbbackup volume into the correct drive. Has anyone done this? Thanks, Steve Roder, University at Buffalo HOD Service Coordinator VM Systems Programmer UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX) TSM/ADSM Administrator ([EMAIL PROTECTED] | (716)645-3564) Problem One may need to temporarily configure your 3494 library as manual in order to perform a database restore. The following provides instruction on how to change your devconfig file to do so. Solution First, make a copy of your devconfig.out file and rename it. Do this so that after the DB restore completes you can just rename the file back to devconfig.out without having to re-write anything. Next, open the current devconfig.out file in a text editor. All but four lines will need to be moved. Below is an example of the edited devconfig file: /* Device Configuration */ DEFINE DEVCLASS 3494CLASS DEVTYPE=3590 LIBRARY=3494LIB SET SERVERNAME SERVERNAME DEFINE LIBRARY 3494LIB LIBTYPE=manual DEFINE DRIVE 3494LIB DRIVE1 DEVICE=/dev/rmt/tsm_drive1 For TSM Version 5.1 and higher, edit as follows: /* Device Configuration */ DEFINE DEVCLASS 3494CLASS DEVTYPE=3590 LIBRARY=3494LIB SET SERVERNAME SERVERNAME DEFINE LIBRARY 3494LIB LIBTYPE=manual DEFINE DRIVE 3494LIB DRIVE1 DEFINE PATH SERVERNAME DRIVE1 SRCType=server DESTType=drive LIBR=3494LIB DEVICE=/dev/rmt/tsm_drive1 ONLINE=YES Save the file and issue your restore syntax. One will then be prompted to mount the volume. After acknowledging the mount, the resore should run to completion. When the restore has completed, discard the edited devconfig file and replace it with the old one. Assuming the restore was successful, the server will start up and reference the proper devconfig file. -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Select statement to return only one value?
All, I'm looking for a select statement that will return only the first value found, even if multiple values match the query. For example, if there are multiple DB backup tapes in a library, I want to do something along the lines of: select backup_series volume_name from volhistory where type like 'BACKUP%' and have it return only values with the first backup series found. I think I need to be using coalesce, but any of the combinations I've tried don't quite get it. Any assistance appreciated -Lloyd
Re: Non IBM Libarary for TSM
IBM OEM's an HP library that IBM calls the 3600, that will use either DLT or LTO. They start at 2 drives/20 slots, and go up to 6 drives/60 slots. They are supported by TSM, but I have no personal experience with them. Regards, -Lloyd On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:14:47 +0530 Raghu S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I work on TSM soluion design. Most of the time i see customer unhappy with the price of 3583 LTO. ( I stopped suggesting single drive libraries for TSM ). I found Magstar 3570 MP is a suitable one for medium sized corporates.I have no idea on Non IBM libraries.Can anybody suggest me Non IBM libraries and corresponding URLs ( Should work with TSM as efficient as IBM libraries and cheaper). Thanks in advance Regards Raghu. Richard Foster Richard.Foster@To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HYDRO.COM cc: Sent by: ADSM: Subject: Re: timeout value for processes Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU 12/18/2002 04:20 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager The Mountwait parameter only specifies how long the process will wait for a tape to be mounted after the process has been allocated the necessary drive(s). If I understand Henrik's question, there doesn't appear to be a parameter which governs how long a process will wait for the tape drives to become available. We just run a script which cancels all Reclaim processes, whether they are active, waiting for tape mounts or waiting for drives. Richard Foster Norsk Hydro mountwait parameter in devclass definition regds Raghu Hi all! Is there a server option or a another why to specify for how long a process will be active? Example, If all drives are busy I might not want reclamation to be pending for hours until two drive becomes available. Henrik.Wahlstedt -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Registered Linux User 285528 Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: 3590 Tape Drives
Dave, I recently upgraded one of my clients from B's (SCSI) to H's (fibre) on an AIX server. We had some initial quirks, which seem to have been cured by firmware. Aside from that, we have seen an increase in the number of tapes getting flagged readonly, which we expected due to the increased track density. We have NOT seen any significant increase in speed, despite the marketing claims. We are, however, getting 3X as much data on a tape. -Lloyd On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:13:36 -0800 Pearson, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone using the H1A drive and if you do... How is it? David C. Pearson IS Production Support Analyst System Network Service Snohomish County PUD # 1 ...OLE_Obj... Phone: 425.347.4420 Pager: 425.290.0944 FAX: 425.267.6380 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: James, Phil [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: 3590 Tape Drives Importance: Low I experienced some problems with the B1A drives also, but we caused some of our own problems. We were running them 23 out of 24 hours every day. We cured the problem by going to the E1A and adding more tape drives. The different between the drives is the B1A are 128 track, the E1A are 256 track and the H1A are 384 track drives. You gain one third capacity for every increment you go up on your drives. We current have a total of 30 E1A tape drives between the open systems backup and the MVS systems native drives. Average at the most maybe two calls per year on the same drive different problems never the same. We still have a high percentage use per day. Philip A. James, Systems Software Specialist Software Services Unit Information Technology Services Division / Data Center California Public Employees' Retirement System Phone: (916) 326-3715 Fax: (916) 326-3884 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Martina Sawatzki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3590 Tape Drives Hi, We are working with a 3494 IBM silo with 4 drives - 3590 type B - which is connected to a RS/6000. As we are having lots of hardware problems with these drives we think about changing them to 3590 drives type E. Does anyone have experience with this type of tape drive ? I`m mainly interested in a kind of comparison concerning performance and availibility between the both types B - E. Thanks a lot Martina -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
OS/2 support on 5.X?
All, A while back I saw a post from someone indicating that the OS/2 clients (3.7 vintage) did not work against a 5.1 server. I have a customer still running a goodly number of OS/2 machines, who would very much like to go to 5.1 (on AIX), but if the 3.7 client/5.X server combination won't work, they're going to have to wait 'til they get off of these OS/2 clients. So...what I'm looking for is some kind of confirmation that this is actually the case. Anyone else tried it who can confirm or deny this? I don't have access to any OS/2 machines that I can use to test. Note that they (and I) are well aware that the 3.7 stuff is out of support, and all the ramifications of that. Any responses appreciated. -Lloyd -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: 3590 Firmware
Bingo! That's what I was looking for. Thanks for your response...guess I didn't look deep enough. -Lloyd On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:30:45 -0500 Allen Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little off base? Yes and no. My CE will gladly do FMR microcode updates (for a fee). You can download them from index.storsys.ibm.com/3590/code3590 (well this is where I get them for AIX) and be aware that you may also need some compatable level of Atape driver too (See index.storsys.ibm.com/devdrvr/AIX/ ) you will need to use the tapeutil program to load the microcode to your drives one at a time and then reset them. Lloyd Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/20/02 08:31 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:3590 Firmware All, We recently replaced a set of 3590B drives with H's in a 3494. During the upgrade, I inquired of the CEs regarding what the latest firmware was, and if they could verify that the upgraded drives had the latest code. The reply I received was that the procedures for 3590 firmware updates had changed, and that the customer is now responsible for obtaining the FMR tape. Anytime in the past I have gone through firmware updates on 3590 drives, the CE always provided/created the FMR tape. A quick check around the web site doesn't seem to indicate anything new along these lines, nor does a visit to index.storsys. When I asked one of the CEs for the procedure for getting the code, he provided me with an e-mail address of someone within IBM. I fired one off to him, along with the information I was told I required (Co. name, drive SN, etc.), but have received no reply. Has anyone else heard this, or are these guys a little off base? -Lloyd -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Linux client requirements
Thomas, Try: http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/adcllin.htm -Lloyd On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 14:16:08 -0400 Thomas Denier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I attempted to use Tivoli's Web site this morning to find out which client levels are compatible with some of our Intel Linux systems. I ended up at an IBM site which required registration. The registration process included a page for entering IBM customer numbers and other information as proof of entitlement to some content. My site's customer number was not accepted as valid. Attempts to contact IBM have so far gotten me nothing except referals to other parts of IBM. In one case, the person I talked to tried to send me back to the group that had referred me to him. While I was waiting for a response to my latest contact I tried to get to the client requirements with just the basic user ID and password. I was unsuccessful; the link to the page had an icon indicating content that requires proof of entitlement. Is there anyplace where I can still get client requirements information without registration and proof of entitlement? -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Re: Problem reading a backup set tape on UNIX client
Doug, You can't do that, or at least that's what I was told. If you create the backupset on a Win server, you can only perform a local backupset restore on a Win server. Creating a backupset on a Win server and attempting to restore locally on a Unix client doesn't work (different tape formats). Regards, -Lloyd On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:02:03 -0300 Doug Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've created a DLT backup set tape on the TSM Server running Windows NT. I am able to query the contents of the backup set on the Windows TSM Server. When I take the DLT tape drive containing the backup set tape to a UNIX client machine and try to query the contents of the backup set I get a communications protocol error. I've mounted the tape device on the UNIX client and when I give it the query command the tape starts moving but I get the error message. Am I missing something when I create the tape or when I setup the query? Thanks, Doug -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:585-389-1260fax:585-389-1267 -
Fw: 3590H drives?
Whoops...disregard the last post. Just realized that they're not available till 7/26. -Lloyd Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:59:31 -0400 From: Lloyd Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 3590H drives? Has anyone installed/set up these yet with TSM? I have a customer with B's that was looking to go to E's, but is now thinking about the new H models. I'm guessing that the migration process would be similar to a B-E upgrade, but I'm not sure I want to be the first kid on the block to try it. -Lloyd -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 - -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
3590H drives?
Has anyone installed/set up these yet with TSM? I have a customer with B's that was looking to go to E's, but is now thinking about the new H models. I'm guessing that the migration process would be similar to a B-E upgrade, but I'm not sure I want to be the first kid on the block to try it. -Lloyd -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: TSM DB Max Size
Actually...it's probably worse than that. That 600 bytes/file refers to the first copy of the file resident on the TSM server. Each additional copy takes ~200 bytes. If you dig back in the archives for this list, you'll finde references indiacting (I believe) that you should probably split up your TSM servers when your DB gets to about 50GB or so. -Lloyd On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:08:45 -0700 Gerald Wichmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My environment could be up to 25TB and 625,000,000 files. According to the TSM 4.2 Admin Guide to calculate the size of my DB I multiply that by 600 bytes.. 625,000,000 * 600 = 375,000,000,000 bytes = 375,000,000 KB = 375,000 MB = 375 GB There also needs to be an offsite copypool of this data.. According to the TSM 4.2 Admin Guide: 625,000,000 * 200 = 125,000,000,000 bytes = 125GB So my DB needs to be 500GB, yikes.. How big can one scale a single TSM server installation up to before you need to start thinking about additional TSM servers? I.e. in this instance can my TSM server even handle this amount of data? How much could it handle? Gerald Wichmann Sr. Systems Development Engineer Zantaz, Inc. 925.598.3099 w 408.836.9062 c -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: 3583 with San Data Gateway
John, As to your question about the SDG not working correctly...the response that said don't worry about it is correct. There is no windows driver for the SDG, nor is one needed. If it concerns you, you can disable lun 0 using the command disableCC 2 from the either the serial port or via telnet. This is described in the Redbook Using TSM in a SAN environment on page 59. The example describes the process for the SDG Router, but it's good for the SDG as well. -Lloyd On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:00:45 +0100 John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats correct Bill The drives show up as follows: GEN_DRIVE \\Tape0 GEN_DRIVE \\Tape1 I am going on site again tomorrow to try and make some sense of it. It still concerns me that the windows device manager says that the SDG is probably not working correctly. I am not sure whether I should just accept that as normal as someone suggested. Based on my findings tomorrow, I will post the symptoms is much more detail. Rgds John - Original Message - From: Bill Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:35 PM Subject: Re: 3583 with San Data Gateway I believe you're wrong. the \\.\Tapex means it is using a native Windows device driver and not the TSM SCSI device driver. Which is what he stated in the original email. He's using the IBM LTO device drivers, which is what the Admin book recommends. The Library itself will be managed with the TSMSCSI driver, but the drives use the IBM LTO device driver and show up and \\.\Tapex. If you were using the TSMSCSI driver the drives would be MTx.x.x.x format. Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anthony Wong Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3583 with San Data Gateway Console as \\.\TapeX where X is a number. \\.\TapeX is a generic device driver As mention before, using generic device driver is not supported with TSM server on NTx. Since testing all available generic device drivers is time consuming and testing teams are no way to test all up-to-date generic device drivers against TSM server on NTx. IF customers need to use generic drvice driver for any reasons (RSM),use Microsoft OS certified device driver from the latest service pack. If Microsoft does not provide device driver for the deivce, try download latest certified device driver form the vender website. TSM testing team never use generic device against TSM with the following exception: 1. Restore backupset from local attached tape driver/libraries or SDG attached tape drive/libraries For more information about RSM , http://www.tivoli.com/support/storage_mgr/devices/magstar.html#magscsi The following environments are not presently supported: Removable Storage Manager (RSM) - controlled libraries on Windows 2000 IBM Ultrium devices when library is controlled by RSM on Windows 2000 Again, not presently supported does not means it will not work. Tivoli Storage Management Function Verification Test , FVT Automation Project Lead Office:408-256-3312 Home:650-757-1661 Cell:415-218-7880 AIM:smartbluewong Dept Y0LA /Bldg 050-3 / Office 3A64 IBM SSG Division 46 James Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04/24/2002 07:38:08 AM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: 3583 with San Data Gateway With the 3583 and TSM on Win2k, the drives use the IBM device driver located at ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr/Win2000/ Once you've installed the driver and configured the drives to use this driver, you should be able to see the drives under the TSM Management Console as \\.\TapeX where X is a number. The library part can either be controlled by the Windows RSM or by the TSM device driver. James Thompson _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: Remote Tape Library
Arshad, Yes, I'm doing it using IBM 2042 (InRange FC/9000's) at either end with InRange GigaMuxxes (DWDM's) at either end. The G'muxxes are set up with (1) channel for SAN traffic, (1) for GB/ethernet and (1) for ESCON for the local and remote Sharks. Do you *have* to use IP to extend your SAN? -Lloyd On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:31:49 +0300 Sharif, Munir Arshad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi TSMers, Does anyone has experience with DWDM with SAN switches, we want to extend our SAN using IP. We have Gigabit Ethernet connection between sites. The idea is to configure remote tape library for TSM as local device. Thanks, Arshad -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: Single Drive Manual Library
Kolbeinn, Yes, I've done it...but I can't say that I recommend using the backup functionality of TSM when operating in this manner. Normally what I'd do for a small site with a single drive and no robotics is stick just to archives. Unfortunately, with a single drive, doing reclamation is a serious nuisance. You can, if you are really determined to run backups, do single drive reclamations using a disk storage pool...but again, I don't recommend it. I do have customers that are using single drives and just do archives, and are getting along fine in that fashion. My $.02 -Lloyd On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:51:16 + Kolbeinn Josepsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all there, Does anyone have experience using TSM with Single Drive Manual Library for small sites? I think it is rather complicated to get those configuration to work without problems, I have not found any recommendations or samples in Red Books or Tivoli Manuals. If anyone have found out a good working configuration for Single Drive Manual Library installation, and like to share it with others, then kindly reply with short description of how to do... Also any suggestions are welcome. Thanks and regards, Kolbeinn Josepsson NYHERJI HF. BORGARTUN 37 IS-105 REYKJAVIK ICELAND -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: IP over FC on AIX
From what I recall, the FC6228 cards do NOT support IP over FC. The Emulex LP8000 cards/drivers, however, indicate that they do support this, but not concurrently with the FC/SCSI...it's one or the other, and if you load both drivers, whichever one gets bound to the card first wins. I have not tried the LP8000's in an AIX machine, and I believe there was some unhappiness posted to this list from some people who were trying to get it to work. -Lloyd On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:02:02 -0700 Alex Paschal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel, I hate to disagree, but at the URL included below, there are some drivers that support IP over the FC Arbitrated Loop or Fabric for the LP HBAs. I was days away from trying it some time ago, but our networking group finally installed Ethernet segments in addition to the main Token Ring segments (!), so I didn't have a real need to move that IP traffic onto the SAN. Steve, if you try it, please let us know how they work. Also, remember to massage your routing table! Alex Paschal Storage Administrator Freightliner, LLC (503) 745-6850 phone/vmail Quote from http://www.emulex.com/ts/fc/docs/frame8k.htm: SCSI/IP v4.1.0.16 Both versions provide both SCSI and IP functionality over Fibre Channel arbitrated loop and fabric topology. OS version: AIX 4.2x and 4.3x with 64-bit extensions Utility: Diagnostic Utility (lputil) version 1.2a16 Protocol: SCSI and IP Topology: Fibre Channel arbitrated loop, point-to-point and fabric Support: LP7000E, LP8000, LP9000 or LP9002L -Original Message- From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP over FC on AIX Hi The Emulex adapter that you are using supports both ordinary Ethernet FC connetion over IP, and FCP connections over a SAN. However, you cannot use the IP protocol to talk directly over the SAN, as the SAN only talks SCSI commands. However, you can use the IBM drivers supplied, a Tivoli Storage Agent, and SAN attached storage (tape) devices to backup your data over the SAN. Remeber that only large files can fully utilize the SAN. Small files will cause a lot of meta data to be sent over the ordinary LAN, which makes it unnecessary to send data over the SAN at all. Best Regards Daniel Sparrman --- Daniel Sparrman Exist i Stockholm AB Propellervägen 6B 183 62 HÄGERNÄS Växel: 08 - 754 98 00 Mobil: 070 - 399 27 51 Steve Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-04-16 02:31 Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:IP over FC on AIX Hi all, I'm in the process of adding SAN capability to my RS6000 Wide Silver node TSM server (AIX 433-09, TSM 4.2.1.8) As part of this I'd like to switch some TSM backups from the general network to IP over the san. This will take the router out of the equation and get our backups back into their window. Problem is that I can't find any IP drivers for the FC adapter ( 2Gb adapter for 64 bit PCI bus type 4-W). My research indicates that I need to go away from the IBM supplied drivers and install Emulex ones. Has anyone got this working, and if so how? Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Quuensland Health, Brisbane Australia ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this e-mail is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. ** -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: IP over FC on AIX
Umm...re: the attached...that depends on the switch. The FC/9000 (IBM2042) and (I believe) the Brocades (2109's) will pass IP over fibre. Not sure about the McData's. -Lloyd On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:24:13 +0200 Daniel Sparrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sending IP traffic over your SAN will at least make your SAN switches confused, as I believe that they do not talk IP, only SCSI commands. -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: Rman/TSm
Yes, that's what we are seeing at one of my customer's sites. Requires some kludging to get everything to work. -Lloyd On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 21:32:33 -0500 Seay, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typically, you define a maximum size for the storage pool. The problem here is that the TDP is different and Oracle does not preannounce the object size. So, I think it will get to 20GB fail and then resend the object, but TDP for Oracle may not be able to resend, thus it will just fail. This is just a stab at what may happen. I have never seen it before. -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: lanfree not lan free
Another little goodie you can stick in there for troubleshooting purposes is the undocumented enableallclients directive. Very usefull for troubleshooting...turn that on, then you should be able to fire up a dsmadmc -consolemode session on the client end, to see what's happening. -Lloyd On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:17:51 -0500 Angelo DeAngelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LANN-Free DSM.SYS Example for all - Original Message - From: Leijnse, Finn F SITI-ITDSES31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:46 AM Subject: lanfree not lan free Hi guys, In a totally AIX environment I have set up my storage agent for LAN free backups. I can start the storage agent and that sees the drive I have assigned to it. So everything seems to be in order. Now when I start my bronline backup through backint it does NOT go LAN free! Can anyone give me a hint were to look for the missing link. specs: AIX client/storage agent with TSM V4.2.1 one LTO drive has been connected and configured to it server is V4.2.1.9 drivemapping is set-up. met vriendelijke groeten, regards et salutations, Finn Leijnse Central Data Storage Management Shell Services International bv. -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: Please HELP! Restore DB without DBBACKUP tape.
Michael, To the best of my knowledge, you MUST have a valid DB backup tape to recover. AFAIK, it is not possible to read storagepool media without an intact database. If your DB is not intact, and your DB backup tapes are no good, I would recommend that you call TSM support to see if they can help you. Good luck! -Lloyd On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:19:35 -0800 Michel David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! Thank you Paul. I try once more to get help to our powerfull List. This is the biggest disaster I can imagine. That looks like No DBBACKUP tape are available ! Is it possible to recover the data FROM the POOL TAPES, if I know which tape is right pool tape ? This is a real emmergency. We tried everything else I think. Thank you. Michel DAVID MARNET __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: TSM Server on Windows - Does it work?
Well...I'm comfortable with TSM on Windows, but not so comfortable with Windows itself. I'd say that if you are happy with the stability of Win2K, TSM will likely not disappoint. I encourage my customers to run it on AIX, because I know that it's rock-stable, and that I'm not going to be fighting the OS forever. My $0.02 -Lloyd On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 22:13:10 +0100 wptw63 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are considering installing TSM server, and are being 'encouraged' to run it on AIX but are a little cold to the idea. We have more experience supporting Windows 2000. Does anyone have any feedback on the stability or performance of TSM server running on Windows? Feel free to mail directly if you have any information that you willing to share but are uncomfortable putting on the list. Thanks Powered by telstra.com -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: TSM on Linux install
Keith, Linux typically uses BASH, so instead of .profile, look for .bash_profile. As to the dsmcad start script, can't you put it in to /etc/inittab? If you want to do a start script, you should be able to use one of the others as a template to work from. -Lloyd Keith Reynolds wrote: I've installed TSM on Linux for 390 and have successfully backed up my system. However, to make the install more permanent, the document says to put some exports into the .profile. The only .profiles I can find are for individual users. Do I have to define a user on Linux that matches my TSM client name and then update its .profile? How do I get dsmcad to automatically start with each boot of the system? From what I can tell I have to write a routine that resides in /sbin/init.d. If that is true, why not distribute a script for Linux with TSM? Thanks, Keith NOTE: This e-mail message may contain information that may be privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure. It is intended for use only by the person to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message in error, please do not forward or use this information in any way, delete it immediately, and contact the sender as soon as possible by the reply option or by telephone at the telephone number listed (if available). Thank you. -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: Setting up TSM on AIX
A couple of things... I assume that by partition, you mean logical volume. AIX's limit for standard JFS filesystems is (I believe) around 2GB...are you creating large file enable filesystems? I would be a little concerned about using RAID5 storage for TSM...depending on how big/active you expect your TSM environment to grow, and what type of disk it is (SSA? Shark? SCSI?). Lastly...do you really need to create those big LV's? TSM volumes can be create as lots of smaller files, and they can be distributed across multiple file systems. I usually try to stay away from creating those big whopping files, as they limit flexibility, should you ever need to make adjustments (reductions) in the size of a TSM DB/log/storage pool. -Lloyd Klein, Robert (CIT) wrote: We trying to set up a TSM server on AIX. The person setting up the server is an experienced Unix sysadmin, but is running into a problem defining partitions on the AIX box. The disk system is 350 GB RAID5. When she tries to set up a partition larger than 5 GB, she gets an error message. Anyone have any idea of what she might be doing wrong? Also, does anyone have suggestions on how best to set up the partitions (one partition for both the db/recovery logs and the disk storage pools, separate partitions, etc.?) I checked the ADSM-L archives for the last couple of years and did not see anything on this issue. Thanks for any help you can provide. -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: ibm3493(4)
Yes! I couldn't remember the command...thanks. But to access the service window, you DO have to be in service mode. I believe your first guess is correct (tcpcfg). Also, remember that you have to change the corresponding IP setting on the attached server(s). In the case of AIX, that's in /etc/ibmatl.conf. Not sure where it is on NT or other sys types. -Lloyd David McClelland wrote: Hi 3494-ers, I'm pretty sure than TCPCFG is your friend here - in service mode on the LM PC you'll need to open a service window (i.e. an OS/2 prompt), from where you'll type in TCPCFG (or is it TCPCONFIG? It's one of the two!). This will bring up a comprehensive TCP settings applet with about all the tweakable TCP/IP settings you'll be needing to change. I don't recall which settings you need to change in the Library Manager application though ... Hope this helps some... David McClelland --- Tivoli Storage Management Team IBM EMEA Technical Centre, Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lloyd Dieter [EMAIL PROTECTED]@VM.MARIST.EDU on 04-10-2001 22:01:51 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: ibm3493(4) Pretty sure you have to be in service mode to do that. You may want to let your CE do it, as you can get into menus where you can easily get into trouble, but usually the service password is left at service. This will let you get into the menu to change the IP for the LM. As a side note, if you have any other controllers in the 3494 (like an A50/60, perhaps), you may also need to change the IP on those as well, depending on how they talk to the LM. If they are doing ARTIC and not ethernet to the LM, this will not apply. Good luck ( be careful) -Lloyd Gerald Wichmann wrote: Anyone know how to change the IP on an ibm3494 tape library? Currently our TSM server was on 10.100.2.1/16 and we've moved it to 217.16.217.1/24.. I need to update the tape library and change it's IP to that subnet, then the TSM server to look to that new IP instead of the old one. I'm not really sure how to do that on an ibm3494.. Gerald -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: ibm3493(4)
Pretty sure you have to be in service mode to do that. You may want to let your CE do it, as you can get into menus where you can easily get into trouble, but usually the service password is left at service. This will let you get into the menu to change the IP for the LM. As a side note, if you have any other controllers in the 3494 (like an A50/60, perhaps), you may also need to change the IP on those as well, depending on how they talk to the LM. If they are doing ARTIC and not ethernet to the LM, this will not apply. Good luck ( be careful) -Lloyd Gerald Wichmann wrote: Anyone know how to change the IP on an ibm3494 tape library? Currently our TSM server was on 10.100.2.1/16 and we've moved it to 217.16.217.1/24.. I need to update the tape library and change it's IP to that subnet, then the TSM server to look to that new IP instead of the old one. I'm not really sure how to do that on an ibm3494.. Gerald -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: URGENT: How to delete backupsets
One other thought...if the backupset in question was created today, you'll probably have to use a totime= parameter also... -Lloyd Maurice van 't Loo wrote: Marc, Thanks for the tip, but i already deleted every backupset with delete backupset * When i do a q backupset, i see none. Still, the used backupsets are still in the volhist. Thanks, Maurice - Original Message - From: Marc Levitan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: Re: URGENT: How to delete backupsets This is an old post that I saved. It still did not work for me but give it a try. I heard it was a bug that may be fixed in version 4.x??? I had a problem with this and searched the adsm.org and found a tip (don't recall from whom - but thanks) to use wildcard delete rather than name etc. I did this: adsm delete backupset * * begind=03/01/2001 endd=-14 ANR2365I Backupset MACOS9.412.336789572 for node MACOS9.412 has been deleted. adsm q volh type=backupset ANR2034E QUERY VOLHISTORY: No match found using this criteria. ANS8001I Return code 11. and it worked for me ... it may work for you (let's hope so). Sheelagh -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Re: TSM VS OMNIBACK
Oops...don't think this made it the first time... Hi Petur- I do quite a lot of work with OmniBack (OBII). Basically, it is like most of the other backup products out there, in that everything is based on full/incremental type architecture (what I refer to as the ArcServe mentality). The good part about OBII is that it's a pretty simple product. You can generally figure it out pretty easily just by playing around with it. The down side is that it has virtually no tape management/tracking capabilities at all. You can update the location of a given volume, but it must be done manually...there's no automation for that piece at all. There's also no really obvious way to create a duplicate set of data to be sent off site, or not without doing some fairly complex scripting. You can duplicate a tape in OBII, but the trick is to figure out which tapes to copy. All that stuff is a manual operation. It works well in small environments, and works particularly well with standalone drives. In general, however, for an environment of any size, and especially with a larger library, it doesn't scale upwards very well. -Lloyd Pétur Eyþórsson wrote: Hi I need to convince my customer why he should use TSM over Omniback. I know nothing about Omniback, i don´t even know if im spelling it right. Does anyone know the main differance in these 2 backupsystems. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | | Kvedja/Regards| | Petur Eythorsson | | Taeknimadur/Technician | | IBM Certified Specialist - AIX | | Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional | | Microsoft Certified System Engineer | |-| | Nyherji HfSimi TEL: +354-569-7700 | | Borgartun 37 105 Iceland | | URL:http://www.nyherji.is| |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
Delete volhist question
All- The answer to this is probably obvious, but I never thought about the question until recently. As a routine practice, we have always set up TSM servers to do a delete volhist type=dbb (for machines not using DRM) to get rid of entries for old database backups...pretty standard so far. My question: Is it recommended to also get rid of old entries for things like stgnew, stgreuse and stgdelete? If you have a machine which has been in use for some long period of time, where your backup copygroup values (verexists, verdeleted, etc) are set to nominal values (say, for example 5,1,30,60), but some of the archive retentions are set to longer periods (say, 3650, or 10 years), what is the effect of (today) doing a delete volhist type=stgnew todate=01/01/2000? TIA... -Lloyd -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
TSM 4.2/NT restore anomalies
I'm in the process of setting up a TSM 4.2 server on AIX, and started testing some NT4 client stores/restores using the 4.2.0 client. It seems that when using the GUI to perform a restore of a particular directory tree containing files that permissions are not preserved, even if the preserve permissions box is checked. Instead, it appears to inherit the permissions of its parent folder/directory. It seems to work correctly when using the command line. Not sure if this has already been noted on the list. I have not yet called this in to support, but thought I'd pass it along before somebody got stung. -Lloyd -- - Lloyd Dieter- Senior Technology Consultant Synergy, Inc. http://www.synergyinc.cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Main:716-389-1260fax:716-389-1267 -
