Re: Good Bye
Zoltan, "The Times They are A-Changin", I remember that saying well.. And now with the upcoming announcement for IBM Storage Defender I feel they definitely are! Thanks for your questions, your answers and the support you gave to this community. Live long and prosper! Op wo 24 mei 2023 om 22:01 schreef Zoltan Forray : > Folks, > > It has been a fun, wild, sometimes entertaining, exasperating, frustrating, > exhausting (insert your adjective/adverb) learning adventure working with > DSF / ADSM / TSM / Spectrum Protect / whatever-the-new-name-is, for the > past 30+ years! > > But, as they say, "*The Times They Are A-Changin*". After more than a year > of analysis, comparisons, discussions, demonstrations, meetings, etc, it > was decided to transition away from IBM/ISP to a new "Enterprise Data > Protection" solution. > > The transition is well underway and we expect to (must) be completely off > ISP by the end of 2023. > > Thank you for all the support I/we have received from this > mailing-list/forums contributors. There are some truly stellar, gifted > individuals here! > > SIGNING OFF > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > Enterprise Data Protection Administrator > VMware Systems Administrator > Enterprise Compute & Storage Platforms Team > VCU Infrastructure Services > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > -- Kind Regards, Groetje, 73, Marcel Anthonijsz
Re: Fwd: IBM Spectrum protect 8.1.3 doesn't update "Days since last access" anybody run into this
Hi Genet, Please see: IT22897: NODES "LAST ACCESS DATE/TIME" AND " DAYS SINCE LAST ACCESS" FIELDS ARE NOT UPDATED in 7.1.8 and 8.1.3 servers http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IT22897 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=apar+site%3Aibm.com+update+last+access ;-) 2017-11-20 22:22 GMT+01:00 Genet Begashaw <gbega...@umd.edu>: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Genet Begashaw <gbega...@umd.edu> > Date: Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 8:41 AM > Subject: IBM Spectrum protect 8.1.3 doesn't update "Days since last access" > anybody run into this > To: lists...@vm.marist.edu > -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: Dedup rate on SAP backups
Hi Eric, I find this redbook, although not for IBM SP, a nice read on best practices for dedup: IBM ProtecTIER Implementation and Best Practices Guide, SG24-8025-03 It is aimed at IBM ProtecTIER but a lot of these best practices are valid for _any_ deduplication implementation: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248025.html?Open Page 334 (section 20.6.9) mentions: - Disable multiplexing. - Use as many backup sessions in parallel as possible, not exceeding MAXNUMMP - Disable compression by configuring RL_COMPRESSION=NO (no-brainer!) Let us know if this helps... 2017-05-19 16:47 GMT+02:00 Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM < eric-van.l...@klm.com>: > Hi guys! > Now that we are testing with TSM deduplication where we have always used a > Data Domain in the past, I discovered that our SAP nodes have a very low > dedup rate. After some Googling it looks like this has something to do with > the random way SAP sends its data to the backup client. If backup files > physically differ every backup run, I can imagine that this will have a > negative impact on deduplication. > Does anybody know if this is true and if there is a way to influence this > behavior? > Thanks for any help in advance and have a nice weekend! > Kind regards, > Eric van Loon > Air France/KLM Storage Engineering > > For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: > http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain > confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If > you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or > any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other > action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may > be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the > sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. > > Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its > employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission > of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. > Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch > Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered > number 33014286 > **** > -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: DB and Log format K
Hi Robert, Best practice is to format the database and log disks with a 4K unit size. Please refer to the TSM Server... oops Spectrum Protect Server Blueprints: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/IBM%20Spectrum%20Protect%20Blueprints Page 25 from the Windows version, v2.3: For the database and active log, a 4 K unit size is used. For example: format c:\tsminst1\TSMfile00 /fs:NTFS /v:TSMfile00 /A:4096 /q For all other types, a 64 K unit size is used. For example: format c:\tsminst1\TSMfile00 /fs:NTFS /v:TSMfile00 /A:64K /q 2016-12-26 14:54 GMT+01:00 rou...@univ.haifa.ac.il <rou...@univ.haifa.ac.il> : > Hello All > > A quick question , how to format DB / LOG disks in TSM Widows Server > 2012 environment. 4K or 64K ??? > > Best Regards > > Robert > -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: VMware Full And Incremental Backup
For example: TSM01>q sched pd-vmw f=d Policy Domain Name: PD-VMW Schedule Name: VE_DAILY_INC Description: Daily Incremental Action: Backup Subaction: VM Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VE_DATACENTER -domain.vmfull="VM=vm01,vm02" -MODE=IFINCR Objects: Priority: 5 Day of Week: Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Sat Month: Any Day of Month: Any Week of Month: Any Policy Domain Name: PD-VMW Schedule Name: VE_WEEKLY_FULL Description: Weekly Full backup. Runs once a week at friday night Action: Backup Subaction: VM Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VE_DATACENTER -domain.vmfull="VM=vm01,vm02" -MODE=IFFul Objects: Priority: 5 Day of Week: Fri Month: Any Day of Month: Any Week of Month: Any 2016-11-07 15:35 GMT+01:00 David Ehresman <david.ehres...@louisville.edu>: > In the Options section of the schedule, they can use " -MODE=IFFull" for > the Full backup schedule and " -MODE=IFINCR" for the incremental schedule. > > David > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > S Kumar > Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2016 4:10 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] VMware Full And Incremental Backup > > Hi > > One of my customer want to schedule Weekly full and rest incremental. > > How it will be schedule, as per tsm backup type is forever incremental. If > we schedule, first will be full and then it will be incremental. > > How can we take/or schedule full backup in weekends? > > Any idea on this? > > Regards, > -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: Backup VE via Resource Pool
Robert, Jacques is correct, to test the backup you could use following: (this is just an example from my environment, replace options/values for your environment!) dsmc backup vm -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VE_DATACENTER1 -domain.vmfull="VMFOLDER=TSM_DM_01" -MODE=IFIncremental My folder is named TSM_DM_01 for the first datamover, I attach data movers and schedules to that particular folder this way.
Re: Backup VE via Resource Pool
Hi Robert, There is no option (yet) to directly backup a VMware Resource Pool. If you have a look at the dsmc backup command, there are following options for VMware backup: Ref: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.3/client/r_cmd_bkupvm.html and : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.3/client/r_opt_domainvmfull.html The domain level parameters are: all-vm all-windows vmhost vmfolder vmhostcluster vmdatastore No vmresourcepool option here :-(. You could create an RFE for that. I manage a lot of backups using the VMFOLDER option, i.e. move a VM into a dedicated VMware folder and it gets backupped by that datamover. A workaround that we have discussed in last Dutch Spectrum Protect User group is to create a script to list the VMs and create a backup script from that list. This requires scheduled (manual or automated) regeneration of the scripts, so I opted for the VMFOLDER option as this is easy manageable, also by the VMware administrators. We have found out that nested VMfolders also work, so you can have multiple folders with the same name in your folder structure, the TDP for VE picks up all those VMs in the folders. 2016-08-10 3:40 GMT+02:00 Robert Ouzen <rou...@univ.haifa.ac.il>: > Hello to all > > We decided to back up our VMware environment with TSM VE 7.1.6 via > Resource Pool ! > > Did you have example what line I need to add in adequate dsm.opt to > configure Resource Pool backup??? > > T.I.A .Best Regards > > Robert > -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: Hold VM Snapshots
Not through TSM but with vCenter alarms, i always set an alarm on snapshot size (on vCenter level) and the newer vCenter (5.5 and up) warns if disk consolidation is needed. The latter happened with TDP for VE 7.1 when the proxy did not release the disk but the snapshot was deleted (but not really because it was still mounted). Since version 7.1.2 I have not seen that anymore. What version are you running? Met vriendelijke groet, Marcel Anthonijsz > Op 20 apr. 2016 om 20:29 heeft Plair, Ricky <rpl...@healthplan.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > I was wondering if anybody else was having a problem with the proxy not > releasing snapshots? > > We have 11 proxies that backup VM each night to a Linux server running TSM > 7.1.1.0. But, for some reason one of these proxies will not release all the > snapshots and it eats up storage. This happens about two times a week and it > just holds onto storage until I log on to the proxy remove the disk and > consolidate every VM that it was holding onto. > > Is there any way to monitor or get an alarm through TSM that this is > happening. > > Thanks for the help > > > > Rick > > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message, including any attachments, is for > the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and > privileged information and/or Protected Health Information (PHI) subject to > protection under the law, including the Health Insurance Portability and > Accountability Act of 1996, as amended (HIPAA). If you are not the intended > recipient or the person responsible for delivering the email to the intended > recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any > use, disclosure, distribution, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email > is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please > notify the sender immediately and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: including/excluding vms from backups administration usability
Markus, My current best practice is to use the VMFOLDER option and create folders in the VMs and templates view. We have found that if the folder exists multiple times, all machines are collected and backed up. For example (pardon my bad the ASCII drawing skills): vCenter01 [-] [ ] DC1 [-] |/ Application servers [-] Backup_1900_DM01 APP01 APP02 [-] NoBackup APPTST01 APPTST01 [-] |/ Domain Controllers [-] Backup_1900_DM01 DC02 [-] |/ Mail [-] Backup_2300_DM02 MX02 So the schedule 1900_DM01 is associated with datamover DM01 and starts at 19:00. It backups the folder Backup_1900_DM01. As you can see the folder is not unique. VM's that are backupped are the APP01, APP02 and DC02. By just moving VM's in and out of the folder structure you can decide when and what to backup. To make it clear we also have defined NoBackup folders. The name says it all. Only downside is that you cannot use the TDP for VE GUI to administer these schedules, but for the rest it works great! Schedule options for this example: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=VE_DC01 -domain.vmfull=VMFOLDER=Backup_1900_DM01 -MODE=IFIncremental 2015-05-19 13:42 GMT+02:00 David Ehresman david.ehres...@louisville.edu: Keith, What a good idea! We do the same. David Ehresman University of Louisville -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Arbogast, Warren K Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 7:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] including/excluding vms from backups administration usability Markus, We add '-NB' to the label in vSphere of the VMs we do not wish to back up. Then, we specify '-VM=*-NB' in the schedule options. QED Keith Arbogast Indiana University On May 19, 2015, at 6:49 AM, Markus Engelhard markus.engelh...@bundesbank.de wrote: Dear all, we are currently struggling a bit with TSM4VE config and making it more manageable regarding including and excluding vms from backup. For disks, we can exclude individual disks by just adding a line to the optfile looking like exclude.vmdisk vm1 Hard Disk 2 exclude.vmdisk vm2 Hard Disk 2 works fine, one disk per line and readable. If i want to exclude vms, I have to put them all in one line looking like DOMAIN.VMFULL vmhost=host1;-VM=vm7*,vm1,vm2,vm6,vm101,vm30,vm29,vm465,vm9,vm879,vm102,vm101;VM=7;VM=vm7657 which is not easily readable and hard to maintain as it grows and changes. I know about the GUI, but then you always have to logon to the system for each change, plus the exclude for disks is not avaliable. The client will not accept more than one domain.vmfull statement or a cr, all has to be in one line. The options also don´t seem to be available in the client option set as options, which would also be a neat solution. Has anyone made a more readable syntax work, or would this be a case for a RFE? Kind regards, Markus -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: Ransomware deleted TSM backups from node
Can Schedule an admin schedule around the Oracle/Notes backup window to enable/disable BACKDEL=YES/NO. It is not an ideal situation, but decreases the risk. And if you configured these nodes with specific nodenames (like you should) the malware could not get to those clients. Or they should scan the host for all available TSM OPT files and act from these... 2015-02-02 19:44 GMT+01:00 Zoltan Forray zfor...@vcu.edu: Same goes for Oracle and Notes backups. They manage their own backups so no way to get around this. Same goes for PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE - AFAIK can't schedule backups without it On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com wrote: Roger, According to my TSM Data Protection for SQL 6.4 manual, servers that run TDP for SQL require backdelete authority. I don't know how to get around this problem. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 7:40 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Ransomware deleted TSM backups from node I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about this, but take it as a warning anyway. A Windows 7 desktop node here was attacked by CryptoWare 3.0 ransomware. They encrypted all files on the node, and left a ransom note. The node owner called me because they were having trouble restoring their files from TSM using a point-in-time restore. The files were gone! Apparently this villian located which backup program was installed, found it was TSM, and issued actual dsmc delete backup commands, which they were allowed to do since PASSWORDACCESS GENERATE was in effect. So this attack vector is not limited to TSM; it would work with any backup program that the villian can figure out how to use. I have moved this node to a domain that includes VEREXISTS=NOLIMIT VERDELETED=NOLIMIT RETEXTRA=NOLIMIT RETONLY=NOLIMIT for that Copy Group, while our data security people investigate. I am planning to change all TSM client nodes to BACKDEL=NO ARCHDEL=NO to prevent a hacker from deleting backups. Anybody got a better idea? Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu === ALL YUOR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!! === ** Information contained in this e-mail message and in any attachments thereto is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems, notify the sender immediately, and refrain from using or disclosing all or any part of its content to any other person. -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software Hardware Administrator BigBro / Hobbit / Xymon 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 -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: TSM 7.1.1 Operations Center Questions
Joerg, 1. From the TSM OC documentation link top right: To update client schedules, complete the following steps: On the Operations Center menu bar, hover over Clients. From the list that is displayed, click Schedules. Select one or more schedules that you want to edit, and click Details. Restriction: If you select more than one schedule, the selected schedules must all show the same server name in the Server column of the table and the same domain name in the Domain column. On the Schedule Details page, view additional information by expanding a schedule name. Edit the schedules, and click Save. Tip: You can configure additional schedule settings by issuing the UPDATE SCHEDULE command. The _Tip_ says it all; You can only update Start time, Run Time alert and Repeat settings with the current version (7.1.1) I guess we have to wait for the next iteration of the OC to update options and objects. I had to look for the association of schedules and clients; It is under the more menu when you right click on a client node in the Clients section. Neat thing is you can select multipled clients and associate these with one schedule with a few clicks (4). 2. Could not find it in the documentation, but as far I understand it is stored in the serverConnection.properties file in the directory c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\ui\Liberty\usr\servers\guiServer or /opt/tivoli/tsm/ui/Liberty/usr/servers/guiServer if you're on Unix. Nice thing of OC 7.1.1 is the customizable login page: edit the file install dir/ui/Liberty/usr/servers/guiServer/loginText.html for you standard legal disclaimers or Halloween ascii art. 2014-11-01 20:45 GMT+01:00 J. Pohlmann jpohlm...@shaw.ca: I have a couple of questions re the OC; have not been able to find an answer: 1. How do I update/display a client schedule. I need to find the objects and options used on the schedule and possibly change them. I get the same OC screen with lack of information regardless of schedmodes any or prompted set on the TSM server. 2. How do I change the IP/DNS name of the hub server in the OC. We just moved the hub server to a new machine with a different IP. We were lucky in that the DNS entry for the old hub server could be changed to the new one so we were able to connect. I would like to update the name/IP used by the OC to connect. Any help is appreciated. Best regards, Joerg Pohlmann -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
TSM Operations Center login page tweaks
Thought I'd share this with you all. Playing around with the TSM OC login page by editing the file loginText.html on a lazy sunday afternoon. If you don't know about it, it is in: C:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\ui\Liberty\usr\servers\guiServer on Windows. Apart from the standard login waiver text I wanted to insert a company logo. This logo needs to be transparent (png or gif) so it looks nice on the OC login background. Now placing the logo somewhere on the OC installation dir does not work (I tried), so how can I insert this image? I am a storage and TSM guy, not a web coder, so I had to look around how this could be done properly... Of course you can refer to another webserver and fetch the image from there but I don't want to be dependent on (yet) another server. Images can be embedded in the html itself, I remembered from long time ago. So after resizing and converting my image to 16 colors, I converted it with webcode tools available at http://webcodertools.com/imagetobase64converter and pasted that into my loginText.html. And presto! A very slick login page. -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz
Re: tsm for ve DR config question
restore from a snapshot of replicated data. I was under the impression that the mbobjrefreshthresh parameter triggered additional (megablock) backups and substituted for periodic fulls. It's my fervent hope that recoverin from file-based storage will not be slower than standard incremental restore. Jim -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of Stefan Folkerts Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 12:14 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU javascript:; Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question The documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a periodic full strategy is best for tape copypools. This and make sure you restore your VE metadata to disk first, this only works if you place this metadata in a seperate copypool. On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Matthew McGeary matthew.mcge...@potashcorp.com javascript:; wrote: TSM for VE will connect to any VCenter server you specify. When we did our test, the VMWare team built a new VCenter instance and I built a new datamover, connected it to the fresh VCenter and started restoring VMs. A word of caution, however, if your data is on tape and you don't have any fulls to restore you should be prepared to wait a very long time. We were doing IFincr backups and saw restore speeds in the KB/s. The documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a periodic full strategy is best for tape copypools. Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921 From: Schneider, Jim jschnei...@ussco.com javascript:; To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU javascript:; Date: 08/27/2014 11:51 AM Subject:[ADSM-L] tsm for ve DR config question Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU javascript:; Hi, folks; I have an upcoming disaster recovery test and will be asked to restore VE data for the first time. I can't run tests because the hardware/network is not in place. Will the DR VE backup proxy server have to connect to a duplicate of the current production vCenter server, or just A vCenter server on the correct network? Are there any other quirks recovering VE during a DR? Thanks in advance, Jim Schneider United Stationers ** Information contained in this e-mail message and in any attachments thereto is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems, notify the sender immediately, and refrain from using or disclosing all or any part of its content to any other person. ** Information contained in this e-mail message and in any attachments thereto is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems, notify the sender immediately, and refrain from using or disclosing all or any part of its content to any other person. -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: Shared libraries and DR - configuration questions
Either way works, the way you have coupled the TSM servers in production can differ from the way you use them in DR. If you care about recovery speed and have a hot site, you can setup a dedicated library manager instance on that site and recover the library clients in parallel. I have used this to recover more than 2 TSM instances at once. The library manager is just a small TSM instance that only does one thing - being library manager. You checkin the tapes (on the library manager) and start the DB restores on the library clients. Because path definitions are stored on the library manager, the only thing defined on the library client is the shared library pointing to the lib mgr. If you have a library manager that needs to be restored first, your second (and third, fourth etc) instance has to wait until the lib mgr has been restored. If RTO matters, setting up a pre-prepared library manager helps. 2014-08-25 22:06 GMT+02:00 Matthew McGeary matthew.mcge...@potashcorp.com: Hello all, We're in the process of setting up a second TSM server at our head office to split the backup load. Primary storage is disk, so that's no problem but we offsite to LTO4 tape. My original thought was that we'd set up library sharing using either the current TSM server as the manager or a new TSM server instance that is solely responsible for library operations. I'm leaning towards a new, library-manager-only TSM server, with two TSM library clients. Where I'm unclear is how DR works with a shared library manager. Do we go through the process of restoring the TSM library manager instance first, then the two (or more) library clients? Or (if we have two libraries available at our DR site) can I restore the two library clients independently, each attached to their own library? Thanks! Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921 -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: TDP for VE clientschedules
Ruud, You could specify per ESX host, or better, as we do, per VMFOLDER. This breaks the TSM4VE web GUI, as it cannot cope with the VMFOLDER option. You then put your VMs to be backed up in folders i.e. PRODUCTION1, PRODUCTION2, PRODUCTION3, PRODUCTION4 etc. Next you setup a schedule with -domain.vmfull=VMFOLDER=Production1 for the first data mover and so on.. Read following technote for more info: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634961 2014-08-05 15:14 GMT+02:00 Meuleman, Ruud ruud.meule...@tatasteel.com: Hi all, We have a VMware vSphere environment with 246 virtual machines. We have 4 datamovers to do backups with TDP for VE. In the client schedule we define the command: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=nodename that owns the backupdata -domain.vmfull=VM=list with virtual machines, comma separated -MODE=IFIncremental This command is limited to 512 characters. So, it isn't possible to schedule all virtual machines at one timestamp, because the hostnames of the virtual machines don't fit in 4 times 512 characters. We could make more schedules for the 4 datamovers, but there would be a risk that client schedules are missed, if a client schedule starts while another one on the same datamover is still running. Does anyone have an easy idea for scheduling 246 virtual machines with TDP for VE? Kind Regards, Ruud Meuleman ** This transmission is confidential and must not be used or disclosed by anyone other than the intended recipient. Neither Tata Steel Europe Limited nor any of its subsidiaries can accept any responsibility for any use or misuse of the transmission by anyone. For address and company registration details of certain entities within the Tata Steel Europe group of companies, please visit http://www.tatasteeleurope.com/entities ** -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: slow restore performance on tsmve
Stefan, Make sure your VMCTL data is on a diskpool. TSM needs the metadata for backups and restores. Next, I have found after extensive testing (and a PMR with IBM) that the transport method NBD is much quiker than hotadd for restore. If you have a physical data mover, you can use SAN as transport method, but I have not been able to test the restore performance of that method. If have created a seperate data mover node (and cad) for restores only with: VMVSTORTRANSPORT nbd in the opt file. Furthermore, I recommend to read VMware's VDDK programming guide to fully understand the underlying infrastructure at: https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/ From this guide on page 82: *Best Practices for SAN Transport* For array-based storage, SAN transport is often the best performing choice for backups when running on a physical proxy. It is disabled inside virtual machines, so use SCSI HotAdd instead on a virtual proxy. SAN transport is not always the best choice for restores. It offers the best performance on thick disks, but the worst performance on thin disks, because of round trips through the disk manager APIs, AllocateBlock and ClearLazyZero. For thin disk restore, NBDSSL is usually faster, and NBD is even faster. Changed Block Tracking (CBT) must be disabled for SANrestores. Also, SAN transport does not support writing to redo logs (snapshots or child disks), only to base disks. 2014-04-26 8:23 GMT+02:00 TSM t...@profi-ag.de: Hello, our restore performance (restore vm) is very poor. We see this on custom installations and also in some test areas. Environment:TSMVE 7.1 / 7.1.0.1, tsm ba client 7.1.0 and 7.1.0.2 TSM-Server 6.3.4 and also 7.1 rate restore only 8 MB/s, backups are much faster 50 to 100 MB/s Should we use the integrated ba client in the tsmve installation software? with best regards Stefan Savoric -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: SV: [ADSM-L] V7 Stable?
Running 7.1 on multiple sites now, on Windows 2008R2, 2012 and Linux without any problems. Dedup, Node replication and node failover working great. TDP for VE with dedup and compression is impressive, needed for remote location backup where the line is only 100Mbit. Operations Center on 7.1 is a major improvement too, since you can set risk settings per node. I've been told 6.3.4.300 contains performance improvements regarding deduplication that did not make it in 7.1.0, but so far we have not seen any problems with 7.1. And since 7.1.1 schedule is target end of 3Q2014, I would not wait for it but benefit now. You can manage 6.3.4 TSM servers with OC 7.1 too if your hub server is 7.1. So upgrade one server to 7.1 and manage the rest as spokes. So I am very curious why Karel says don't. Could you please explain, Karel? What problems are you seeing or having? 2014-04-03 18:17 GMT+02:00 Dan Fredén dan.fre...@datacenter.se: We have been running 7.1 for a while now, Windows-based. No issues at all. Operations center is nice too.. Dan -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] För Matthew McGeary Skickat: den 3 april 2014 18:08 Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Ämne: Re: [ADSM-L] V7 Stable? I just did an update to 7.1 from 6.2 on a small Windows-based TSM server. No drama or issues here. Matthew McGeary Technical Specialist PotashCorp - Saskatoon 306.933.8921 From: Ryder, Michael S michael_s.ry...@roche.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/03/2014 10:06 AM Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] V7 Stable? Sent by:ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Karel Bos tsm@gmail.com wrote: Don't, just don't do 7.1 just yet. Op 3 apr. 2014 15:09 schreef Huebner, Andy andy.hueb...@novartis.com: Well THAT'S a cliff-hanger -- could you describe your experiences with 7.1 and why we shouldn't? Mike -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: Prevent client backups from failing over to tape stgpools
Joerg, I think the brilliant piece W refers to is that you can place a seq. pool inbetween to stop overflow migration. I did not know that either, learning every day from the ADSM-L. Thank you Steve! So I guess we can create an admin schedule to update the NEXT STGPOOL if we don´t want a pool to overflow to tape at certain times. Or just always.Maybe you just want backups to fail, not to use any tape drives and fix things later (enlarge disk pool, adjust schedules etc.) S many knobs we can turn with TSM ;-) 2014-02-03 J. Pohlmann jpohlm...@shaw.ca: You can chain two sequential pools and use mig stg name lo=0 - have used this technique time and again to change technology, including TSM deduped to no-deduped on a dedup appliance so that we got hardware dedup. Have also used it for tape to file devclass. You can always schedule a mig stg command using an admin schedule. Regards, Joerg -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 12:23 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Prevent client backups from failing over to tape stgpools Oh, that's brilliant! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven Harris Sent: Friday, January 31, 2014 8:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Prevent client backups from failing over to tape stgpools Brian TSM will only move a backup to the next pool when the pools are disk and sequential, not when sequential and sequential, so I suggest adding a dummy sequential pool with no volumes assigned in the middle. disk - dummy - tape I've come across this when using an intermediate file pool. It doesn't spill like a disk pool does should it fill up. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 31/01/2014 8:24 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: If the tape pool is in a separate device class from other storage pools, you could set the mount limit on the device class to 0. That's our strategy when we do library maintenance to allow operations to continue to/from our disk and file pools. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:47:46AM -0800, Brian Kunst wrote: We???re in a situation where we want to temporarily prevent our users from ever writing directly to our tape drives. In the event that our primary random access stgpools hit 100% utilization, we want client backups to fail rather than failover over to the next, sequential access stgpool. As far as I can see, there are two ways to accomplish this: 1) Set maxnummp for all nodes to 0. This should prevent them from access a tape drive when backing up, but would also prevent them from access a tape drive to do a restore. Clearly not a good option. 2) Set the Next Storage Pool value for the primary random access stgpools to null. With this method, migrations would no longer work, but we could still move data to tape using the ???move data??? command on the random access volumes. I???m leaning towards option 2, but I would like to know if anyone cam think of another way to prevent client backups from going directly to the tape drives. Thanks, -- Brian Kunst Storage Administrator Large Scale Storage Systems UW Information Technology -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz
Re: TSM/VE backup options
David, My best practice is to use the VMFOLDER option and drop the VM's you want to backup in that VM folder. But I agree there should be better options to build your VM list.. 2013/11/22 Erwann Simon erwann.si...@free.fr Another idea would be to allow wildcards for the vmname parameter of the backup vm command (object field in a schedule). But it's not allowed, sadly. Ehresman,David E. deehr...@louisville.edu a écrit : I am trying to set up a schedule that backs up all the VMs on a HOST whose vmname ends in -NR. So here is what I have: Action: Backup Subaction: VM Options: -vmfulltype=vstor -vmbackuptype=fullvm -asnodename=MITC-NR -domain.vmfull=VMHOST=v- mware10.it-servers.louisville.edu;VM=*-NR;-VM- =tsmpbw*,sp2010sql*,Print*,test-clus-sp* -MODE=IFIncremental What this appears to do is back up all the VMs on the specified VMHOST and all the VMs anywhere that end with -NR. Is there any way to tell VME to backup all the VMs that match a pattern AND are on a specified HOST? David -- Erwann SIMON Envoyé de mon téléphone Android avec K-9 Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-53421341
Re: TS3310 Tape Library Cleaning Slot
Jeff, If you don´t want to stop TSM, the other alternative is to delete paths, drives and library. Make the necessary library changes and redefine the library. Checkin scratch tapes and checkin private next. If you have library clients, run an audit on the library client next. All should be fine now. I´ve done it a few times and it´s more work than shutdown-restart TSM but if you like uptime (or have a SLA), this is the way to do it 2013/8/20 Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.info Hi Jeff All SCSI Libraries are basically the same. I've just been through a ton of pain during a two site TS3500 upgrade (TSM 5.5.6 under AIX). My advice is shut down the TSM server, make your changes and bring it back up. The library layout that TSM internalizes will be rebuilt by the restart to match the new reality. The restart also does an audit for you. I wish there was an easy way to close and reopen the library without a shutdown. I've seen the AUDIT extensions in V6 and can't wait to get there. Regards Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Canberra Australia On 20/08/2013 9:47 AM, Grant Street wrote: In a perfect world you would restart the whole server and library JIC ... but ... The TS3310 is normally configured to use physical partitions ie the OS and Software only see the slots in the partitions not the cleaning slot so effectively the library looses a slot from TSM's POV. This would mean that the library geometry would change. Provided no other changes were made eg control path, cabling, os configuration. There shouldn't be any changes in the tape drive ordering. Deleting the partition and recreating it will make the library go Offline for a period so I would offline the TSM library path while this was done. Are you using the IBM tape and library drivers? What OS are you using? After the change you should be able to use the OS tools to get information about library slots and check that it is correct. One that is working set the TSM library path online Run an audit library. run show slots and show library in TSM to confirm that the new changes have been picked up. I haven't tried this so YMMV Grant On 20/08/13 05:25, Geoff Gill wrote: Hello, I posted a question which didn't really get any response so I'd like to reword this to see if anyone has a comment. This is a TS3310 Tape library. Whoever defined everything initially removed the default cleaning slot and there is no way to insert a cleaning tape because there are no cleaning slots defined. There are empty slots available so here is the question. If I go to modify the logical library and bring the Configure Storage Slots number down by 1 slot to free up an empty slot, does anyone know if there is a reboot of the library or library audit or any issues I need to worry about? Thank You Geoff Gill -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz
Re: TSMVE - Two stgpools
David, You can also use the VMFOLDER option. In this way you can drag the VM in the one folder in the vSphere client. Create a folder for each datamover and let them back it up.. I have created a folder Production that's backupped daily and a folder Test that is backupped on a weekly schedule. It's a pity you cannot define the VMFOLDER option in de TDP for VE GUI... Probably in next version.. domain.vmfull=VMFOLDER=Productie Ref: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432938 Marcel 2013/7/10 Arbogast, Warren K warbo...@iu.edu HI David, If your guest names correlate well with the two storage pools you can use the VM and -VM keywords to direct them to the correct data mover. Wildcards are supported. If your guest names are unpredictable, you may need to add a suffix to the label of guests going to one destination. Then, include them in one schedule and exclude them from the other , using VM= and -VM=, --so you only have to modify 150 labels. Keith -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2111 2101
Re: lbtest sometimes doesn't return barcodes
Paul, No, I have not seen this before: I use IBM Atape and tapeutil -f /dev/smc0 inventory without any problem. Make sure that TSM or another program is not using the library device at the same time or program around that. Maybe a previous perl script that hangs/waits until next timeout? Marcel 2011/5/9 Paul Fielding p...@fielding.ca I have a wierd issue I'm hoping someone has seen before. I have a 3584 tape library attached to an AIX box. I have a bunch of perl scripts that deal with tape automation. Part of this process uses lbtest to grab the current contents of the IO door. However, I've had it happen a few times where things stopped working, and when I investigate I find that lbtest has suddenly stopped returning barcodes. All of the elements show FULL or EMPTY, but no barcodes are listed, and barcode_len = 0. If I go to the library web gui, I see the barcodes. And if I just leave things alone, in 24h or so it seems to go back to normal. Nothing I do to the library (including rebooting it) seems to fix the problem immediately. Very very wierd. Anyone seen this before? regards, Paul -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522
Re: lbtest sometimes doesn't return barcodes
Running my old (12.1.8.0) version of tapeutil tells me: ATTENTION: Tapeutil provides only a subset of device and command support that the IBM Tape Diagnostic Tool (ITDT) provides. The functions and capabilities of tapeutil are now performed by ITDT. Please use ITDT in place of tapeutil, as tapeutil is deprecated. lslpp -w or -f do not tell me which fileset the /usr/bin/tapeutil belongs to, my guess is that is was part of IBMtape (or Atape) but not shipped anymore with the latest version. Sigh... so far for progress.. ITDT link :http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S4000662 Marcel. 2011/5/10 Paul Fielding p...@fielding.ca Side note - I thought I'd give tapeutil a go, but it does not appear to be install on my box. Running Atape 12.2.4.0. Anyone know if tapeutil should still be installed with this version of Atape, or if there's somewhere else I could look for it? regards, Paul On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Marcel Anthonijsz mar...@anthonijsz.net wrote: Paul, No, I have not seen this before: I use IBM Atape and tapeutil -f /dev/smc0 inventory without any problem. Make sure that TSM or another program is not using the library device at the same time or program around that. Maybe a previous perl script that hangs/waits until next timeout? Marcel 2011/5/9 Paul Fielding p...@fielding.ca I have a wierd issue I'm hoping someone has seen before. I have a 3584 tape library attached to an AIX box. I have a bunch of perl scripts that deal with tape automation. Part of this process uses lbtest to grab the current contents of the IO door. However, I've had it happen a few times where things stopped working, and when I investigate I find that lbtest has suddenly stopped returning barcodes. All of the elements show FULL or EMPTY, but no barcodes are listed, and barcode_len = 0. If I go to the library web gui, I see the barcodes. And if I just leave things alone, in 24h or so it seems to go back to normal. Nothing I do to the library (including rebooting it) seems to fix the problem immediately. Very very wierd. Anyone seen this before? regards, Paul -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522 -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522
Re: 6.2 output formatting
Hi Steve, How about the client options -dataonly=yes and -commadelimited or -tabdelimited ? You lose the headers and the formatting and get only the data you need. See also: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21143748 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsm.srv.ref.doc/r_cmdline_adclient_options.html Marcel 2011/3/9 Steve Harris st...@stevenharris.info Hi All I've inherited a Rube Goldberg reporting system where TSM queries are run against systems, and the results from all the TSM instances, then run through a very ugly rexx script to produce a consolidated csv file for each day. This is then further processed by some rather opaque VBA and the end result is a consolidated backup spreadsheet for each customer, for the whole month. The issue I have is that with a 6.2.0.0 admin client (on windows) and a 5.5 server the TSM query output looks like... NODE_NAME STATUS RESULT SCH_DATE SCH_TIME ACT_DATE ACT_TIME -- -- --- -- -- ADCMOHTSM01-BA Completed0 2011-03-09 20:00:00 2011-03-09 20:00:08 ARTHUR Completed4 2011-03-10 00:30:00 2011-03-10 00:31:54 AT1RTJACompleted0 2011-03-10 03:30:00 2011-03-10 03:30:39 But with the same admin client and a 6.2.2.0 server I get NODE_NAME STATUS RESULT SCH_DATE SCH_TIMEACT_DATE ACT_TIME -- -- --- - --- - KDCUNITSM00-BA Completed 0 2011-03-09 08:00:00 2011-03-09 08:00:04 KDCUNITSM00-BA Completed 0 2011-03-09 10:02:16 2011-03-09 10:05:39 KDCUNITSM00-BA Completed 0 2011-03-09 11:07:00 2011-03-09 11:07:02 I can cope with the column spacing being different, but the blank lines are throwing the rexx script into a tight loop. I've tried sqldisplaymode wide/narrow with no effect, and the problem persists if I drop the number of fields in the output, so its not that the line is just full enough to overflow. Any ideas on how to get around this? Thanks Steve Steven Harris TSM Admin Paraparaumu New Zealand -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz
Re: tsm question
We were once told to hold ALL data of ALL our TSM servers. We put _all_ copy pool tapes and DBbackups (2 for each server) in the archive, together with the printed planfiles. Next we had to order that amount of scratch of course... We made a very happy media supplier that year I dare not to mention the amount of tapes, but it was a wall full of LTO1. I don't work at that company anymore, but I think it's still stored in the archive as no one dares to get rid of them. I hope the admins have put some spare LTO1/LTO2/LTO3 drives on the shelve as well, as LTO4 drives cannot read them anymore. And don't mention the reqd software levels, OS's, SAP software etc.. 2010/10/7 Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com How have others handled litigation issues where one is told to capture all folders for specific servers. You can copy them all to a read only system. You can take a backup of them with a different node name. You can export everything which would include active and inactive. You cant just pull all tapes since others have files there and it would cause havoc with relcamation. Any other thoughts, It seems no matter what you do its a lengthy process. Tim -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522
Re: Export server error
- the admin account must exist on both servers - the passwords for those accounts must be in sync. Met vriendelijke groet, Marcel Anthonijsz Op 16 jul 2010 om 23:43 heeft Mario Behring mariobehr...@yahoo.com het volgende geschreven:\ Hi list, I am trying to export all data from a TSM Server to a new one. Both servers are TSM 5.5.0.0 servers. I have defined the TARGET server on the SOURCE and vice versa, specifying a password and TCP Port (lladdress) for both servers. When I issue the EXPORT SERVER command with the PREVIEWIMPORT set to YES I get the following error on the SOURCE server: 07/17/2010 18:29:44 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: EXPORT SERVER filed=all previewi=y tos=tsm_dedalus (SESSION: 18790) 07/17/2010 18:29:44 ANR0984I Process 254 for EXPORT SERVER started in the BACKGROUND at 18:29:44. (SESSION: 18790, PROCESS: 254) 07/17/2010 18:29:44 ANR0609I EXPORT SERVER started as process 254. (SESSION: 18790, PROCESS: 254) 07/17/2010 18:29:44 ANR0402I Session 18873 started for administrator ADMIN (Server) (Memory IPC). (SESSION: 18790, PROCESS: 254) 07/17/2010 18:29:45 ANR8214E Session open with 200.143.2.89 failed due to connection refusal. (SESSION: 18790, PROCESS: 254) 07/17/2010 18:29:45 ANR0561E EXPORT SERVER: Process aborted - sign on to server, TSM_SERVER, failed. (SESSION: 18790, PROCESS: 254) The problem is that the TARGET server is refusing the connectionbut why?? NO messages appear in the ACTLOG at the TARGET server. What could be wrong? What am I missing? Regards, Mario
Re: Adding drives to a TS3500
No license required indeed, but you will lose some tape slots. If I recall correctly, the come in 4, so when you place the fifth (or 9th) drive you will get 3 empty drive-slots. So placing multiples of 4 in a frame is most space efficient considering tape slots. And you have to recycle TSM to discover the changed library. Or if you don't want TSM downtime, delete the paths, drives and library and redefine. (and checkin tapes) 2010/4/15 Mehdi Salehi ezzo...@googlemail.com Hi all, There is a TS3500 library with one frame and four LTO drives and full capacity on demand. Should I pay only for additional dirves or something like license is needed? Thanks -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz
Re: ***SPAM*** [ADSM-L] Using tapeutil to examine cleaning tapes
Or use the (just released) TS3500 CLI: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1159uid=ssg1S4000854 Quote: Abstract The IBM TS3500 Command Line Interface (CLI) program can be used to access the TS3500 library from a CLI. This is in addition to the TS3500’s Web Specialist. One of the commands you can issue is: -viewCleaningCartridges : Views all cleaning cartridges. I haven't tried it yet and am not sure if it lists the usecount. Another command is: -removeExpiredCleaningCartridges 2010/3/19 Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl On 18 mrt 2010, at 17:05, John D. Schneider wrote: Greetings, This is a followup to Wanda's question about cleaning tapes on an IBM3584 library. I wondered if there was any way to do it using tapeutil. When I call tapeutil with: tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 inventory or tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 cartridgelocation either one will give me a report of all the slots in the library and what is in them. But wait a minute, it is not a report of ALL the slots. When I tried to use it to find out what slots had cleaning tapes, I found out that neither of these reports will show the cleaning tapes! They show empty slots, and ones with tapes in them, but they don't show slots that have cleaners. I suppose this is by design, but I can't imagine why. Does anyone know of a way to detect the cleaning tapes with tapeutil (or similar utility like ITDT), so we can determine how many cleanings are left? as said before, with ALMS, the cleaners are owned and managed by the library, they are completely invisible to the systems ,hey don't even take up slots in the systems' library partitions. The only way to find out is through the great web panels Best Regards, John D. Schneider The Computer Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, Remco Post -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522
Re: ***SPAM*** [ADSM-L] Using tapeutil to examine cleaning tapes
Curious as I was, I just tried it and it shows the clean remaining: *java -jar TS3500CLI.jar -a lib1 --viewCleaningCartridges* View all cleaning cartridges at 2010/03/19 09:05:13 Volume Serial, Logical Library, Element Address,Media Type, Location, Cleans Remaining, Most Recent Usage CLNU69L1, Cln Cartridge, 0, LTO Ultrium-1, Slot (F1 C1 R2), 42,Not Applicable 2010/3/19 Marcel Anthonijsz marcel.anthoni...@gmail.com Or use the (just released) TS3500 CLI: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1159uid=ssg1S4000854 Quote: Abstract The IBM TS3500 Command Line Interface (CLI) program can be used to access the TS3500 library from a CLI. This is in addition to the TS3500’s Web Specialist. One of the commands you can issue is: -viewCleaningCartridges : Views all cleaning cartridges. I haven't tried it yet and am not sure if it lists the usecount. Another command is: -removeExpiredCleaningCartridges 2010/3/19 Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl On 18 mrt 2010, at 17:05, John D. Schneider wrote: Greetings, This is a followup to Wanda's question about cleaning tapes on an IBM3584 library. I wondered if there was any way to do it using tapeutil. When I call tapeutil with: tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 inventory or tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 cartridgelocation either one will give me a report of all the slots in the library and what is in them. But wait a minute, it is not a report of ALL the slots. When I tried to use it to find out what slots had cleaning tapes, I found out that neither of these reports will show the cleaning tapes! They show empty slots, and ones with tapes in them, but they don't show slots that have cleaners. I suppose this is by design, but I can't imagine why. Does anyone know of a way to detect the cleaning tapes with tapeutil (or similar utility like ITDT), so we can determine how many cleanings are left? as said before, with ALMS, the cleaners are owned and managed by the library, they are completely invisible to the systems ,hey don't even take up slots in the systems' library partitions. The only way to find out is through the great web panels Best Regards, John D. Schneider The Computer Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 / Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, Remco Post -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522 -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522
Re: Our TSM system is a mess. Suggestions? Ideas?
plug When running AIX (or Linux), run nmon to keep an eye on your systems performance. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-analyze_aix/ And off course put the collected nmon files through nmon analyser http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-nmon_analyser/ We do this once a month or so (if time permits) to identify bottlenecks and hot spots /plug Good luck, 2010/2/15 Dury, John C. jd...@duqlight.com First, I want to thank all of you for your replies. I definitely got some good ideas and have some things to look at. I'm going to make some changes to where the DB and rec log are stored. Right now, they are in the same RAID 1 Group with 2 133g drives. I created a new lun of 6 133g drives setup as RAID 1/0. Eventually all of this will be moved to a bigger box with the storage pools and DB and Recovery log living on local disks. Thanks everyone! -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz
Re: Our TSM system is a mess. Suggestions? Ideas?
John, A few things come to mind; Which nodes are pinning the recovery log? In my experience it are always a few slow nodes (with a lot of small files typically) that pin the log. Try to find out which one do, and try to improve these nodes so that they backup faster. Hell of a job when you have 500 nodes, but try to find those that take longer than 4-5 hours or have a really slow throughput speed. A speed/duplex mismatch on a TSM client can killed my log performance more than once.You can look in TSM reporting for the slowest nodes. IMHO, I think that TSM 6.1.x will not solve your problem. Another solution would be to turn of the cell phone off every other day ;-) Good luck, 2010/2/14 Dury, John C. jd...@duqlight.com We have about 500 nodes and have a backup windows from 5pm until 7am. I have our backup schedule setup so that about 30 nodes do incremental per hour with a few exceptions. We have a 3T disk storage pool and 4 LTO4 drives in our tape library. Our dbbackuptrigger is set at logfull 30% and numincrmeentals of 4. Our recovery log is filling up almost once per hour while backups are running and not emptying fast enough before it hits 80% when all backups come to a crawl until it is emptied below 80%. Sometimes the recovery log is pinned at 70% or so and another backup kicks off immediately which again does not empty fast enough and the whole system goes into slowdown after the recovery log is past 80%. Expiration, which used to run in a matter of about 6 hours, is not completing even after running for 24 hours. Our DB is about 97gig and about 74% full. The recovery log is maxed at 13gig. I don't see anything in the activity log out of the ordinary. The TSM server is AIX 5.3.10.1 TL10 running on an IBM 9131-52A in a logical partition with 20 CPus configured and about 32G of RAM. The TSM DB and disk storage pools are attached to a Clariion CX3-80 via 4G Hbas. I have the recovery log and TSM DB set to use different HBAs then the disk or tape storage pools so the HBAs aren't fighting each other. I've read the tuning and performance manual and matched our settings to match it's suggestions with some small exceptions. We have purchased new hardware to move the whole system to Linux and a monster of a box since we want to get to TSM v6.x eventually, hopefully sooner rather than later. AIX hardware and support is tremendously expensive when compared to an intel based box and like a lot of people, we have a very small budget for anything IT related. . One of the biggest problems we are having is the recovery log filling up too quickly and not emptying fast enough. Even with a log full trigger of 30%, the incremental backup won't finish before the recovery log hits 80% and with the log full setting so low, we are doing TSM DB backups almost every hour while clients are backing up. This really seems excessive to me. Why would an incremental backup of the TSM DB take an hour or so to run and is it normal for the recovery log to fill up so fast while backups are running? We even attempted to do a reorg of the TSM DB but unfortunately it was going to run for much longer than our window allowed so it had to be cancelled. I'm going to try again for next weekend and hopefully talk the powers that be, into a 24 hour window for the reorg. We did do a reorg years ago and the performance improvements were amazing, ie expiration ran in less than an hour. I know that is a bandaid but I have to do something until I can get to version 6 when I can have a bigger recovery log and a new, more powerful server in place. I guess I'm just not sure what to look at at this point and frankly I'm exhausted. Our help desk is calling me daily, every day, at 6am or earlier, as TSM is running slow again. Any suggestions on what else to look at? (Sorry for such a fragmented email. I've had about 3 hours sleep at this point) -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz
Re: I/O thruput
Was the TSM server updated with the SDDPCM drivers as well? Or are the incremental File system backups going to disk (thus using the SDDPCM driver on TSM server) and the TDP going directly to tape (either via lan-free or on the TSM server). Check your used mgt class for the TDP backup. And nmon running is IMHO _always_ a good idea, to keep track of your performance. 2009/12/10 Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl: are the tdp sessions either lan-free or going directly to tape? as with any performance issue: measure every parameter in the system. Have nmon running during the night, logging all metrics... I'm not convinced that the sdd driver change is the only contributing factor On 10 dec 2009, at 23:16, Fred Johanson wrote: My 6 boxes are TSM 5.5.3.0 on AIX 5.3.11. The change was to upgrade a driver from SDD to SDDPCM 2.2.03, whatever that means. On each machine I/O went to hell. On 3 backups went normally, but migration crawled. On the other 3 migrations went fine but backups were almost non-existent. The exception on all 6 was that TDP and SQLBacktrack went normally. We backed out the changes and things are back to normal. The unanswered question that management wants to know is why the TDP weren't affected. -- Kind Regards, Groetje, Marcel Anthonijsz T: +31(0)299-776768 M:+31(0)6-2423 6522
Re: Tape performance (was: Re: Preferred TSM Platform)
I wrote a small script to collect the snmp data from the Brocade fibre switches and put the data into Servergraph. Next I created a report to graph the data and in that way we could see historical data throughput and identified more than once a faulty tape drive! You definitely want to monitor your tape throughput! For fiber-attached tape drives - use snmp to monitor the fiber switch ports. I use mrtg to acquire the data from my two tape-oriented SAN switches; this feeds my hobbit (renaming, currently, to xymon) monitoring package. I get to see the activity for each tape drive (one per switch port) and for each TSM HBA (one per switch port - zoned to all tape drives, run as one primary and 4 alternates per switch). Marcel
Re: ADIC i2000 woes
See: Determining DB Backup volume with no Volume History file for TSM on Windows http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663context=SSGSG7q1=1143559uid=swg21143559loc=en_UScs=utf-8lang=en Go find your needle in an automated way! 2009/1/30 Steve Stackwick sstackw...@jasi.com I've got a customer who needs to restore his TSM database from a tape residing in an i2000. Problem: no volhist. Yes, I know I can run DSMSERV DISPLAY DBB to look through all volumes, but... We know when the DB backup ran. Is there a log on the i2000 that will show mounts by time? That would really help narrow down the number of volumes to search. I can't seem to find any information in the i2000 User's Guide. -- Kind Regards, Groetjes, Marcel Anthonijsz
Re: Restore Testing stories
Hi Lindsay, A few stories come to mind.. 1. Systemstate restore failure is very common (not only with TSM). I recommend (scheduled) ntbackup for systemstate as an extra failsafe. 2. The Wintel support group excluding lots of stuff from the backup because there were so many Warning messages in the log... Not sure how you can test this... 3. Restore failed because Pri stg pool volume became unavailable after backup, and thus no copy 4. Restore failed because the customer could not remember the file name, only that it was about a year ago and it was an excel file (amongst other zillions) 1 and 3 I see on a regular basis during DR testing, 3 caused by not managing the TSM environment close enough. 4 was not a test... Happy Holidays! -- Kind Regards, Groetjes, Marcel Anthonijsz M:+31(0)6-2423 6522
