Re: systemd.service file example

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

You should not worry too much about this : the installer should do it all for 
you !

This is what has been created in our shop (ch1inst being the name of our server 
instance) :

[Unit]
Documentation=man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
SourcePath=/etc/rc.d/init.d/ch1inst
Description=SYSV: Starts/Stops an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Server instance
Before=runlevel3.target
Before=runlevel4.target
Before=runlevel5.target
Before=shutdown.target
Before=besclient.service
Before=rhnsd.service
After=network-online.target
After=network.service
Conflicts=shutdown.target

[Service]
Type=forking
Restart=no
TimeoutSec=5min
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
KillMode=process
GuessMainPID=no


Having this existing as well :

/run/systemd/generator.late/ch1inst.service
/run/systemd/generator.late/runlevel5.target.wants/ch1inst.service
/run/systemd/generator.late/runlevel4.target.wants/ch1inst.service
/run/systemd/generator.late/runlevel3.target.wants/ch1inst.service
/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/system.slice/ch1inst.service


Cheers !

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Schneider, Jim
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 3:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: systemd.service file example

I don't have an SP service but I've created a service for BMC control-M Agents. 
 It should be easy to make substitutions.  Note: This is for Red Hat 7.  It 
won't work on RHEL 6.

create file /etc/systemd/system/ctmag.service

===
[Unit]
Description=Control-M Agent

[Service]
Type=forking
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/home/ctmagent/ctm/scripts/rc.agent_user start
ExecStop=/home/ctmagent/ctm/scripts/rc.agent_user stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
===

Issue these commands to activate:
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable ctmag.service


Jim Schneider
Essendant

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Michaud, Luc [Analyste principal - environnement AIX]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:53 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] systemd.service file example

>  However, I would rather use a systemd.service file to start (and stop) SP 
> during startup and shutdown.

Same here !!!  

Keep me informed if anything comes your way outside this list.

We'll be migrating our Blueprint SP (8.1.6.1) servers from AIX to RHEL7 
(latest) within the next few months.

Regards,

Luc

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Re: TSM server performance continuing

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Eric,

These seem to be default values when installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 
7.3. 
I checked several other machines, all are having the same value.

And following page 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55428812/how-the-values-of-kernel-parameters-are-defined
 seems to confirm my statement.

Cheers.

Arnaud



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, 
Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 2:31 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM server performance continuing

Hi Arnoud,

I do not understand why your max seg size (kbytes) = 18014398509465599 and max 
total shared memory (kbytes) = 18014397435740096 are so huge. If you have 256 
GB RAM, like I do, I would expect max seg size (kbytes) = 268435456 and max 
total shared memory (kbytes) = 268435456.
Thanks for your help!

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


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: donderdag 22 augustus 2019 09:02
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM server performance continuing

Hi Eric,

Running 4 TSM servers at 8.1.6.1 (PowerLinux servers with 256 GB RAM), and 
making use of directory-container storage pools only.
No server performance or responsiveness  issues here anymore, since we changed 
our storage to make use of IBM Isilon. 

Here my values :

vmstat 1
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- --cpu-
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   sobibo   in   cs us sy id wa st
13  0 1420032 1152064 1429248 24384806400  7500  376600 24  3 
61 11  0
13  1 1420032 1046016 1428288 24394348800 61425680 22427 42342 50  
4 39  7  0
12  0 1420032 1144640 1426688 24386195200 542840 0 19109 33340 49  
2 43  6  0
12  4 1420032 883904 1427136 24413382400 577108 0 19777 34954 49  2 
44  6  0
12  1 1420032 936576 1425344 24407276800 613152   372 21110 37559 49  2 
43  6  0
11  5 1420032 1028096 1425600 24397734400 549024 0 24599 47296 48  
2 42  8  0
12  0 1420032 1028032 1424832 24398342400 56618016 21693 39976 49  
2 43  6  0


ipcs -l

-- Messages Limits 
max queues system wide = 250880
max size of message (bytes) = 65536
default max size of queue (bytes) = 65536

-- Shared Memory Limits 
max number of segments = 62720
max seg size (kbytes) = 18014398509465599 max total shared memory (kbytes) = 
18014397435740096 min seg size (bytes) = 1

-- Semaphore Limits 
max number of arrays = 62720
max semaphores per array = 250
max semaphores system wide = 256000
max ops per semop call = 32
semaphore max value = 32767


Specific tuning done : disabling CPU virtualization (led to sever hangs when 
active)

ppc64_cpu --smt=off


Cheers.

Arnaud


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Re: TSM server performance continuing

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Rick,

Following to your question, I  realized that I erroneously stated "Isilon" 
instead of "Storwize".

Probably due to the fact that I've been stressed quite a lot with these 
devices, when we initially started setting up a new Spectrum environment, 
making use of Isilon devices as a destination for our directory-container pools.
To make a very long story (more than one year) short,  we experienced huge 
performance issues with Isilon, opened cases with IBM as well as EMC, to 
finally learn that, due to the block size used by container pools we would 
never be able to get sufficient performance with Isilons. 
Final result : we do have a brand new pair of Isilons for sale, which has 
advantageously been replaced by a pair of Storwizes. Since then, no issues any 
longer.

I finally did not answer your question : we used 5 X NL140 nodes in each of our 
Isilons.

Cheers.

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Adamson
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 1:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM server performance continuing

Arnaud,
Apologies for off topic question but what series nodes are you using in the 
Isilon?

Thank you,
-Rick Adamson

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager  On Behalf Of PAC Brion 
Arnaud
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 3:02 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM server performance continuing

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Hi Eric,

Running 4 TSM servers at 8.1.6.1 (PowerLinux servers with 256 GB RAM), and 
making use of directory-container storage pools only.
No server performance or responsiveness  issues here anymore, since we changed 
our storage to make use of IBM Isilon.

Here my values :

vmstat 1
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- --cpu-
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   sobibo   in   cs us sy id wa st
13  0 1420032 1152064 1429248 24384806400  7500  376600 24  3 
61 11  0
13  1 1420032 1046016 1428288 24394348800 61425680 22427 42342 50  
4 39  7  0
12  0 1420032 1144640 1426688 24386195200 542840 0 19109 33340 49  
2 43  6  0
12  4 1420032 883904 1427136 24413382400 577108 0 19777 34954 49  2 
44  6  0
12  1 1420032 936576 1425344 24407276800 613152   372 21110 37559 49  2 
43  6  0
11  5 1420032 1028096 1425600 24397734400 549024 0 24599 47296 48  
2 42  8  0
12  0 1420032 1028032 1424832 24398342400 56618016 21693 39976 49  
2 43  6  0


ipcs -l

-- Messages Limits 
max queues system wide = 250880
max size of message (bytes) = 65536
default max size of queue (bytes) = 65536

-- Shared Memory Limits 
max number of segments = 62720
max seg size (kbytes) = 18014398509465599 max total shared memory (kbytes) = 
18014397435740096 min seg size (bytes) = 1

-- Semaphore Limits 
max number of arrays = 62720
max semaphores per array = 250
max semaphores system wide = 256000
max ops per semop call = 32
semaphore max value = 32767


Specific tuning done : disabling CPU virtualization (led to sever hangs when 
active)

ppc64_cpu --smt=off


Cheers.

Arnaud


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Switzerland, CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
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Re: TSM server performance continuing

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Eric,

Running 4 TSM servers at 8.1.6.1 (PowerLinux servers with 256 GB RAM), and 
making use of directory-container storage pools only.
No server performance or responsiveness  issues here anymore, since we changed 
our storage to make use of IBM Isilon. 

Here my values :

vmstat 1
procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io -system-- --cpu-
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   sobibo   in   cs us sy id wa st
13  0 1420032 1152064 1429248 24384806400  7500  376600 24  3 
61 11  0
13  1 1420032 1046016 1428288 24394348800 61425680 22427 42342 50  
4 39  7  0
12  0 1420032 1144640 1426688 24386195200 542840 0 19109 33340 49  
2 43  6  0
12  4 1420032 883904 1427136 24413382400 577108 0 19777 34954 49  2 
44  6  0
12  1 1420032 936576 1425344 24407276800 613152   372 21110 37559 49  2 
43  6  0
11  5 1420032 1028096 1425600 24397734400 549024 0 24599 47296 48  
2 42  8  0
12  0 1420032 1028032 1424832 24398342400 56618016 21693 39976 49  
2 43  6  0


ipcs -l

-- Messages Limits 
max queues system wide = 250880
max size of message (bytes) = 65536
default max size of queue (bytes) = 65536

-- Shared Memory Limits 
max number of segments = 62720
max seg size (kbytes) = 18014398509465599
max total shared memory (kbytes) = 18014397435740096
min seg size (bytes) = 1

-- Semaphore Limits 
max number of arrays = 62720
max semaphores per array = 250
max semaphores system wide = 256000
max ops per semop call = 32
semaphore max value = 32767


Specific tuning done : disabling CPU virtualization (led to sever hangs when 
active)

ppc64_cpu --smt=off


Cheers.

Arnaud


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Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, 
Eric van (ITOP NS) - KLM
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 5:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: TSM server performance continuing

Hi guys,

A few weeks ago I already wrote about the severe performance issues we have 
with our TSM 7.1 servers. In the 'old days' we used to back up our clients to 
TSM 6.3 servers with Data Domains attached. Smaller clients backed up through 
the LAN, large ones through the SAN.
Our newer servers use LAN-only with directory containers and the performance of 
these servers really sucks. Setting up a session takes sometimes almost one 
minute and a q stg also takes 30 to 50 seconds. I noticed that performance is 
OK when there are no TDP for Oracle sessions running, but as soon as they are 
started the performance starts to drop drastically.
We are really lost on where to look for the cause. I sent numerous logs and 
traces to IBM, but I guess they are out of ideas too since I don't hear 
anything back from them lately. The only thing is that supports notices delays 
in DB2, but they don't know why...
What I noticed on my TSM server is that as soon as there is a load on the 
server, the blocked queue starts to rise. I would like to know if that's 
something to focus on or not.
Can some of you please run the "vmstat 1" command on their Linux server 
(preferably one with directory containers too) and let me know if you too see 
values other than 0 in the B column?
Thank you very much for your help in advance!

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

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Re: container with damaged extents

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi J. Eric,

The normal recovery path is to make use of "repair stgpool" command, which 
should be fixing the damaged container, making use of the data that has already 
been replicated to your destination server.

You might then perform an audit from the involved containers (audit container 
/orion_c3/18/1843.ncf)  to confirm everything is fine, and in the 
case where some extents would still be damaged, have to remove them, making use 
of the "action=removedamaged" option available in "audit container" command.

Cheers.

Arnaud


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of J. 
Eric Wonderley
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:17 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: container with damaged extents

Looking thru my actlog I noticed msgs like these:
01/30/2019 08:59:07 ANR4847W REPLICATE NODE detected an extent with ID
9421329176063255953 on container
/orion_c3/18/1843.ncf that is marked
damaged. (SESSION: 65110496, PROCESS: 31257)
01/30/2019 08:59:08 ANR4847W REPLICATE NODE detected an extent with ID
391953834519091250 on container
/orion_c2/11/112d.ncf that is marked
damaged. (SESSION: 65110496, PROCESS: 31257)
01/30/2019 08:59:08 ANR4847W REPLICATE NODE detected an extent with ID
9421329176063255953 on container
/orion_c3/18/1843.ncf that is marked

Also this:
Protect: YACHT>q damaged orioncontain

Storage Pool Name Non-Deduplicated Extent Deduplicated
Extent Cloud Orphaned Extent
  Count   Count
   Count
- ---
 --- ---
ORIONCONTAIN  31  0

What is typically done to resolve this?  I do replication and my target
doesn't show any damaged extents.

Container occupancy madness ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Folks,

First of all, happy new year to all of you !

I do experience a strange behavior with container based storage pools, which I 
would like to share with you. Basically it's all about wasted space in 
directory pools, which I would like to reclaim  :


1) I do search for some container having "max size"="free space", so 
basically an empty container ...


Protect: CH2LX770>q container 
/tsm/IsilonCOLO/sf/sfisi/StrgPool-3/vm/15/01/000115aa.dcf f=d

Container: 
/tsm/IsilonCOLO/sf/sfisi/StrgPool-3/vm/15/01/-
000115aa.dcf
Storage Pool Name: DIR_VM
   Container Type: Dedup
State: Available
   Free Space(MB): 10,323
 Maximum Size(MB): 10,323
Approx. Date Last Written: 08/25/2018 01:30:54
  Approx. Date Last Audit:
   Cloud Type:
Cloud URL:
   Cloud Object Size (MB):
  Space Utilized (MB):
Data Extent Count:


2) I then start a "move container", using the "defrag=yes" option :


Protect: CH2LX770>move container 
/tsm/IsilonCOLO/sf/sfisi/StrgPool-3/vm/15/01/000115aa.dcf defrag=yes
ANR0984I Process 15195 for Move Container started in the BACKGROUND at 11:44:42
AM.


3)  This is what the activity log reports :


Date/Time  Message
   
--
01/10/2019 11:44:42ANR0984I Process 15195 for Move Container started in the
BACKGROUND at 11:44:42 AM. (SESSION: 339756, PROCESS:
15195)
01/10/2019 11:45:27ANR0986I Process 15195 for Move Container running in the
BACKGROUND processed 42,742 items for a total of
1,695,019,008 bytes with a completion state of SUCCESS
at 11:45:27 AM. (SESSION: 339756, PROCESS: 15195)


So basically a container reported as being empty is not in reality ? Shall I 
assume that this is a  bug ?
BTW, spectrum protect server 8.1.4 running on PowerLinux.

Cheers.

Arnaud

Re: running dsmadmc in non-root account

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Eric,

In addition to this, when using TSM client > 8.1.2, as non-root user,  watch 
for this : 
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.6/client/c_cfg_nonadmin.html
The "passworddir" statement is now mandatory in dsm.sys ...

Cheers.

Arnaud



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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Marc 
Lanteigne
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 3:49 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: running dsmadmc in non-root account

Hi Eric,

The error says you do not have permission to write to the dsmerror.log in
the reports directory.

Solution here:  https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21633869
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Thanks,
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-Original Message-
From: J. Eric Wonderley 
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 10:34 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] running dsmadmc in non-root account

I have tsm v8.1.5 on linux and it does not run...:
[e1derley@yacht ~]$ dsmadmc
ANS1398E Initialization functions cannot open one of the IBM Spectrum
Protect logs or a related file: /reports/dsmerror.log. errno = 13,
Permission denied [e1derley@yacht ~]$ ll /reports/dsmerror.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86762 Dec 12 07:11 /reports/dsmerror.log

I have tsm v7.1.4 on aix and it does run.

Has something changed on purpose or is this a configuration issue?

Real client occupancy for directory pools

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,

I've been requested recently to provide a report showing, for each of the 
clients defined on our TSM server, how much disk space was used on the storage 
attached to TSM server. This report would then be used to define the storage 
sizing requirements for a future TSM infrastructure. You have to know that we 
are currently working exclusively with directory-based storage pools, therefore 
enabling deduplication and compression for all of the backed-up data.

I then tried various approaches, all of them based on queries against TSM 
server, making use of occupancy or auditocc tables  :

NODE_NAME NODE_NAME,TOTAL_MB from auditocc
SELECT NODE_NAME, FILESPACE_NAME, LOGICAL_MB, PHYSICAL_MB, REPORTING_MB from 
occupancy

The csv formatted output would then be massaged into some Excel sheet to get 
desired results.

It finally appeared that whatever query or method I used,  the sum of the 
storage usage reported for our client nodes was exceeding the amount of storage 
we attached to our TSM servers ! In addition to this, the values obtained were 
not aligned with the charge back report provided by Operation Center.

Thus my question : does anyone have a method available that would allow us to 
accurately measure the exact amount of real, physical storage used by a client. 
I'm fully aware that there will be some overhead due to expired data, 
containers reuse delay and so on, and do not mandatorily want to include it in 
the calculations ... Again, this report must be reporting the data per client, 
not as a whole for some storage pool ...

Thanks for any hint !

Cheers.

Arnaud

Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, making use of NFS mounts

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Efim and All who helped 

Quick update on this : it appeared that some export policy rule (i.e." 
-superuser sys" ) had not been properly set on our Netapp, thus refraining TSM 
client to reach some files. Once this corrected, I was able to get successful 
snapshot backups done.
 
@Efim : thanks for your advice, I'll take it in consideration ! Just have to 
discuss with our storage team what exactly they are expecting from me ;-)

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Efim
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 6:39 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, 
making use of NFS mounts

Arnaud,

Can you explain why you are copying the .snapshot folder during incremental 
filesystem backup with snapdiff?
It contains snapshots created by netapp and SP for this FS. 
I believe that it should be excluded from copying in your backup job.

Efim


> 19 сент. 2018 г., в 18:28, PAC Brion Arnaud  
> написал(а):
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> Thanks a lot for appreciated feedback, unfortunately even when using TSM own 
> snapshots the problem still exists :
> 
> root@xx:~ # dsmc i /Airwarder -snapdiff -diffsnapshot=create 
> -snapdiffhttps -optfile=$OPTPATH >/tmp/snapshot_Airwarder.log
> 
> root@ xx:~ # more /tmp/snapshot_Airwarder.log
> IBM Spectrum Protect
> Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface
>  Client Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.0 
>  Client date/time: 09/19/2018 17:17:41
> (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2017. All Rights 
> Reserved. 
> 
> Node Name: NETAPP_CH1_NFS
> Session established with server xx: Linux/ppc64le
>  Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.000
>  Server date/time: 09/19/2018 17:17:42  Last access: 09/18/2018 12:12:17
> 
> 
> Incremental by snapshot difference of volume '/Airwarder'
> 
> Connected to NetApp Storage Virtual Machine
>Management Filer Host/IP Address : xx
>Filer Version Information: NetApp Release 9.3P3: Wed Apr 04 
> 13:07:06
> UTC 2018
>Storage VM Name  : ch1ns100
>Storage VM Host/IP Address   : xx
>Storage VM Volume Style  : Flex
>Login User   : tsm-backup-user
>Transport: HTTPS
> 
> Performing a Full Incremental Backup of volume '/Airwarder'
> Creating Base Snapshot.
> Using Base Snapshot 'TSM_CH135BA2689781857_AIRWARDER' with timestamp 
> 09/19/2018 
> 17:17:43
> ANS4007E Error processing 
> '/Airwarder/.snapshot/TSM_CH135BA2689781857_AIRWARDER/
> acrimport_ref/ch': access to the object is denied
> ANS4007E Error processing 
> '/Airwarder/.snapshot/TSM_CH135BA2689781857_AIRWARDER/
> acrimport_test/ch': access to the object is denied
> ANS1898I * Processed   500 files *
> ANS4007E Error processing 
> '/Airwarder/.snapshot/TSM_CH135BA2689781857_AIRWARDER/
> 
> I'm lost here ...
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Arnaud
> 
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> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
> Robert Talda
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10:48 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, 
> making use of NFS mounts
> 
> Brion:
>  Here at Cornell, we have a TSM client on a Linux system backing up NFS 
> shares via NFS mounts and snapdiff differentials - and have been doing so for 
> years.
> 
>  First, the gory details:
> - For TSM
> TSM Client Version 7, Release 1, Level 6.0 (*red faced, thought I had 
> upgraded to SP 8.1.2.0 months ago*)
> Run

Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, making use of NFS mounts

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

ser   : tsmbackup
Transport: HTTPS

09/13/2018 00:38:10 Performing a Snapshot Differential Backup of volume 
'/nas-backup/vol/cit-pea1-test'
09/13/2018 00:38:10 Creating Diff Snapshot.
09/13/2018 00:38:10 Using Base Snapshot 
'TSM_SANT5B9759FC1AB6_CIT_PEA1_TEST_VOL' with timestamp 09/11/2018 06:00:28
09/13/2018 00:38:10 Using Diff Snapshot 
'TSM_SANT5B99E9B24F814_CIT_PEA1_TEST_VOL' with timestamp 09/13/2018 04:38:10

Then, on the next backup (48 hours later thanks to a large amount of data to 
backup on 9/13), the Diff Snapshot becomes the base:
09/15/2018 01:29:22 ANS2328I Using Snapshot Differential Change Log.
09/15/2018 01:29:22 
Connected to NetApp Storage Virtual Machine
Management Filer Host/IP Address : ccc-cdot01.cit.cornell.edu
Filer Version Information: NetApp Release 9.3P6: Thu Jun 14 
20:21:25 UTC 2018
Storage VM Name  : cit-sfshared05
Storage VM Host/IP Address   : cit-sfshared05-backup.files.cornell.edu
Storage VM Volume Style  : Flex
Login User   : tsmbackup
Transport: HTTPS

09/15/2018 01:29:22 Performing a Snapshot Differential Backup of volume 
'/nas-backup/vol/cit-pea1-test'
09/15/2018 01:29:22 Creating Diff Snapshot.
09/15/2018 01:29:22 Using Base Snapshot 
'TSM_SANT5B99E9B24F814_CIT_PEA1_TEST_VOL' with timestamp 09/13/2018 04:38:10
09/15/2018 01:29:22 Using Diff Snapshot 
'TSM_SANT5B9C98B1A15B2_CIT_PEA1_TEST_VOL' with timestamp 09/15/2018 05:29:21

I think that consistency is what is missing in your approach - I suspect that 
there are intervening snapshots with information about files that have been 
deleted or changed that are not part of what the TSM client is seeing.

I will add that our NetApp team is very happy with this approach.  The TSM 
client has been very efficient in its management of the snapshots, and in those 
rare cases when it doesn’t, the snapshots are easy to identify and clean up.

FWIW,
Bob


Robert Talda
EZ-Backup Systems Engineer
Cornell University
+1 607-255-8280
r...@cornell.edu


> On Sep 18, 2018, at 8:35 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tommaso,
> 
> The backup command I'm using (dsmc i /Airwarder -snapdiff -snapdiffhttps  
> -diffsnapshotname="daily.*" -diffsnapshot=latest -useexistingbase 
> -optfile=dsm_netapp.opt)  includes the "useexistingbase" statement.
> Based on my understanding of the documentation, this means that the S.P. 
> client will not trigger the creation of a new snapshot on the Netapp device, 
> but instead, make use of a snapshot that had been created previously by some 
> internal mechanism of the Netapp. 
> Therefore, it seems very unlikely that any process still has a grip on any of 
> the files being part of this snapshot ...
> My humble opinion only of course, I'm waiting on others fellow members of 
> this list feedback !
> 
> In addition to this, I would like to avoid the use of any exclude statement 
> during the backup : I doubt that any of my customers would be very happy to 
> hear that I'm not able to restore some of his precious files because the 
> Spectrum Protect client had limitations ... Such issues never aroused with 
> NDMP-based backups !
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Arnaud 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
> Tommaso Bollini
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 12:29 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: R: [ADSM-L] Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux 
> machine, making use of NFS mounts
> 
> Hello Arnaud, maybe it would be: The NetApp snapshot indicates which files 
> are modified on the LUN (for which their backup is triggered); but the 
> Backup-Archive client cannot "take" them because they are locked by the 
> application.
> Perhaps you can solve by inserting the appropiate rules in incl.excl file to 
> skip them.
> 
> 
> -Messaggio originale-
> Da: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Per conto di PAC 
> Brion Arnaud
> Inviato: martedì 18 settembre 2018 12:21
> A: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Oggetto: [ADSM-L] Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux 
> machine, making use of NFS mounts
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Following to IBM's decision to withdraw the web GUI in the latest versions of 
> their clients (thus making NDMP hardly usable), as well as to the renewal of 
> our NAS infrastructure (now using Netapp), I'm trying to implement netapp 
> snapdiffs in our shop.
> 
> So far we succeeded in defining necessary user and roles on the Netapp, as 
> well as to setup the TSM client in order to interact with our filer, but I'm 
> now facing an issue where some files cannot be backed up, apparently due to 
> access rights.
> 
>

Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, making use of NFS mounts

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Del,

Thanks for your clarifications which are perfectly making sense. 
The way we operate our shop (users are always using the machine's node name as 
user ID) just made me forget that any admin might be granted authority on some 
other node, in our case the datamover ...

Cheers.
Arnaud


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del 
Hoobler
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10:16 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, 
making use of NFS mounts

Hi Arnaud,

>> ... there's still the limitation that this GUI will be usable only once 
logged on the machine hosting the Spectrum Protect client


What do you mean by "that machine"? 

The Backup-Archive client is not in the data path for an NDMP backup or 
restore. The data path is between the NetApp filer and the server's tape 
library (or more generally speaking the storage pools).  The 
Backup-Archive client is reading metadata from the server to present 
information to the end user. 

This means that the user can log in to any machine (Windows/AIX/Solaris 
x86) that has a Backup-Archive client. When the user logs into the 
Spectrum Protect server (at launch of the Backup-Archive client) they are 
providing an admin id that is not tied to a specific machine.


Del





"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 09/18/2018 
07:57:56 AM:

> From: PAC Brion Arnaud 
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 09/18/2018 07:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux 
> machine, making use of  NFS mounts
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
> 
> Hi Del,
> 
> Thanks for the information, which I got as well thru other channels 
> (IBM support), but there's still the limitation that this GUI will 
> be usable only once logged on the machine hosting the Spectrum Protect 
client.
> This means that I will be forced to grant some of my colleagues 
> (which were previously doing the restores on their own)  specific 
> logging rights on that machine. Was not the case before ...
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Arnaud
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On 
> Behalf Of Del Hoobler
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 12:57 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux 
> machine, making use of NFS mounts
> 
> Hi Arnaud,
> 
> Not related to SnapDiff ... but just some info on NDMP and B/A Client...
> 
> In Spectrum Protect BA client 8.1.6 that GAs this coming Friday (21 
> September) you will be able to use the native Java GUI to handle NDMP 
> backups/restores.
> 
> 
> Del
> 
> ----
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 09/18/2018 
> 06:20:52 AM:
> 
> > From: PAC Brion Arnaud 
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Date: 09/18/2018 06:21 AM
> > Subject: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux 
> > machine, making use of  NFS mounts
> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Following to IBM's decision to withdraw the web GUI in the latest 
> > versions of their clients (thus making NDMP hardly usable), as well 
> > as to the renewal of our NAS infrastructure (now using Netapp), I'm 
> > trying to implement netapp snapdiffs in our shop.
> > 
> > So far we succeeded in defining necessary user and roles on the 
> > Netapp, as well as to setup the TSM client in order to interact with
> > our filer, but I'm now facing an issue where some files cannot be 
> > backed up, apparently due to access rights.
> > 
> > Here an extract of our backup log :
> > 
> > IBM Spectrum Protect
> > Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface
> >   Client Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.0
> >   Client date/time: 09/18/2018 10:26:28
> > (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2017. All 
> RightsReserved.
> > 
> > Node Name: NETAPP_CH1_NFS
> > Session established with server XXX: Linux/ppc64le
> >   Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.000
> >   Server date/time: 09/18/2018 10:26:28  Last access: 09/18/2018 
> 10:00:37
> > 
> > 
> > Incremental by snapshot difference of volume '/Airwarder'
> > 
> > Connected to NetApp Storage Virtual Machine
> > Management Filer Host/IP Address : 
> > Filer Version Information: NetApp Release 9.3P3: Wed Apr
> > 04 13:07:06 UTC 2018
> > Storage VM Name  : xxx
> > Storage VM Host/IP Address   :

Re: CONTAINER pool experiences

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Zoltan,

If I understood well, your storage is Isilon based : in this case do not even 
think of using CONTAINER pools, as performance will be horrible.
Not much time to talk about this, but to make a very long story short, we are 
about to dump/trash /resell the brand new Isilon arrays we bought  8 months 
ago, and to replace them with direct attached storage (Storwize), as we never 
reached sufficient performance levels. Cases have been opened with IBM and EMC 
as well, to no result at all, beside a suspected block size issue which would 
refrain the Isilons to work at expected speed.
If you plan to go for such a hardware configuration, my only advice is :  run 
away, as fast as you can !

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 3:37 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: CONTAINER pool experiences

We are investigating using CONTAINER pools for our offsite replica server
vs the current FILE method which is killing us with the constant dedup,
reclaims, etc.

So, what are the "gotchas' ?   We are still at V7.1.7.400 so I figure we
will have to do without any new features added in the V8 branch. But is it
problematic enough at V7 to avoid it?

Your thoughts?  Experiences?

--
*Zoltan Forray*
Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator
Xymon Monitor Administrator
VMware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
www.ucc.vcu.edu
zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807
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Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, making use of NFS mounts

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Tommaso,

The backup command I'm using (dsmc i /Airwarder -snapdiff -snapdiffhttps  
-diffsnapshotname="daily.*" -diffsnapshot=latest -useexistingbase 
-optfile=dsm_netapp.opt)  includes the "useexistingbase" statement.
Based on my understanding of the documentation, this means that the S.P. client 
will not trigger the creation of a new snapshot on the Netapp device, but 
instead, make use of a snapshot that had been created previously by some 
internal mechanism of the Netapp. 
Therefore, it seems very unlikely that any process still has a grip on any of 
the files being part of this snapshot ...
My humble opinion only of course, I'm waiting on others fellow members of this 
list feedback !

In addition to this, I would like to avoid the use of any exclude statement 
during the backup : I doubt that any of my customers would be very happy to 
hear that I'm not able to restore some of his precious files because the 
Spectrum Protect client had limitations ... Such issues never aroused with 
NDMP-based backups !

Cheers.

Arnaud 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Tommaso Bollini
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 12:29 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: R: [ADSM-L] Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux 
machine, making use of NFS mounts

Hello Arnaud, maybe it would be: The NetApp snapshot indicates which files are 
modified on the LUN (for which their backup is triggered); but the 
Backup-Archive client cannot "take" them because they are locked by the 
application.
Perhaps you can solve by inserting the appropiate rules in incl.excl file to 
skip them.


-Messaggio originale-
Da: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Per conto di PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Inviato: martedì 18 settembre 2018 12:21
A: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Oggetto: [ADSM-L] Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, 
making use of NFS mounts

Hi All,

Following to IBM's decision to withdraw the web GUI in the latest versions of 
their clients (thus making NDMP hardly usable), as well as to the renewal of 
our NAS infrastructure (now using Netapp), I'm trying to implement netapp 
snapdiffs in our shop.

So far we succeeded in defining necessary user and roles on the Netapp, as well 
as to setup the TSM client in order to interact with our filer, but I'm now 
facing an issue where some files cannot be backed up, apparently due to access 
rights.

Here an extract of our backup log :

IBM Spectrum Protect
Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface
  Client Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.0
  Client date/time: 09/18/2018 10:26:28
(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2017. All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: NETAPP_CH1_NFS
Session established with server XXX: Linux/ppc64le
  Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.000
  Server date/time: 09/18/2018 10:26:28  Last access: 09/18/2018 10:00:37


Incremental by snapshot difference of volume '/Airwarder'

Connected to NetApp Storage Virtual Machine
Management Filer Host/IP Address : 
Filer Version Information: NetApp Release 9.3P3: Wed Apr 04 
13:07:06 UTC 2018
Storage VM Name  : xxx
Storage VM Host/IP Address   : XX
Storage VM Volume Style  : Flex
Login User   : tsm-backup-user
Transport: HTTPS

Performing a Full Incremental Backup of volume '/Airwarder'
Using Base Snapshot 
'vserverdr.0.7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_102500' with 
timestamp 09/18/2018 10:25:02 ANS4007E Error processing 
'/Airwarder/.snapshot/vserverdr.0.7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_102500/acrimport_ref/ch':
 access to the object is denied ANS4007E Error processing 
'/Airwarder/.snapshot/vserverdr.0.7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_102500/acrimport_test/ch':
 access to the object is denied
ANS1898I * Processed   500 files *
Directory-->   4,096 /Airwarder/ [Sent]
Directory-->   4,096 /Airwarder/.etc [Sent]

(skipped some lines)

ANS1228E Sending of object '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/log4j.conf' failed.
ANS4007E Error processing '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/log4j.conf': access 
to the object is denied
Normal File-->   309 
/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg  ** Unsuccessful **
ANS1228E Sending of object '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg' 
failed.
ANS4007E Error processing '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg': 
access to the object is denied
Normal File-->   330 
/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg.bak  ** Unsuccessful **
ANS1228E Sending of object 
'/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg.bak' failed.
ANS4007E Error processing 
'/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg.bak': access to the object is 
denied

(skipped some lines)

ANS1802E Increment

Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, making use of NFS mounts

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Del,

Thanks for the information, which I got as well thru other channels (IBM 
support), but there's still the limitation that this GUI will be usable only 
once logged on the machine hosting the Spectrum Protect client.
This means that I will be forced to grant some of my colleagues (which were 
previously doing the restores on their own)  specific logging rights on that 
machine. Was not the case before ...

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del 
Hoobler
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 12:57 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, 
making use of NFS mounts

Hi Arnaud,

Not related to SnapDiff ... but just some info on NDMP and B/A Client...

In Spectrum Protect BA client 8.1.6 that GAs this coming Friday (21 
September) you will be able to use the native Java GUI to handle NDMP 
backups/restores.


Del






"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"  wrote on 09/18/2018 
06:20:52 AM:

> From: PAC Brion Arnaud 
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 09/18/2018 06:21 AM
> Subject: Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux 
> machine, making use of  NFS mounts
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Following to IBM's decision to withdraw the web GUI in the latest 
> versions of their clients (thus making NDMP hardly usable), as well 
> as to the renewal of our NAS infrastructure (now using Netapp), I'm 
> trying to implement netapp snapdiffs in our shop.
> 
> So far we succeeded in defining necessary user and roles on the 
> Netapp, as well as to setup the TSM client in order to interact with
> our filer, but I'm now facing an issue where some files cannot be 
> backed up, apparently due to access rights.
> 
> Here an extract of our backup log :
> 
> IBM Spectrum Protect
> Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface
>   Client Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.0
>   Client date/time: 09/18/2018 10:26:28
> (c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2017. All 
RightsReserved.
> 
> Node Name: NETAPP_CH1_NFS
> Session established with server XXX: Linux/ppc64le
>   Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.000
>   Server date/time: 09/18/2018 10:26:28  Last access: 09/18/2018 
10:00:37
> 
> 
> Incremental by snapshot difference of volume '/Airwarder'
> 
> Connected to NetApp Storage Virtual Machine
> Management Filer Host/IP Address : 
> Filer Version Information: NetApp Release 9.3P3: Wed Apr
> 04 13:07:06 UTC 2018
> Storage VM Name  : xxx
> Storage VM Host/IP Address   : XX
> Storage VM Volume Style  : Flex
> Login User   : tsm-backup-user
> Transport: HTTPS
> 
> Performing a Full Incremental Backup of volume '/Airwarder'
> Using Base Snapshot 'vserverdr.0.7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-
> bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_102500' with timestamp 09/18/2018 10:25:02
> ANS4007E Error processing '/Airwarder/.snapshot/vserverdr.0.
> 7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_102500/
> acrimport_ref/ch': access to the object is denied
> ANS4007E Error processing '/Airwarder/.snapshot/vserverdr.0.
> 7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_102500/
> acrimport_test/ch': access to the object is denied
> ANS1898I * Processed   500 files *
> Directory-->   4,096 /Airwarder/ [Sent]
> Directory-->   4,096 /Airwarder/.etc [Sent]
> 
> (skipped some lines)
> 
> ANS1228E Sending of object '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/
> log4j.conf' failed.
> ANS4007E Error processing '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/
> log4j.conf': access to the object is denied
> Normal File-->   309 /Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/
> sapConnector.cfg  ** Unsuccessful **
> ANS1228E Sending of object '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/
> sapConnector.cfg' failed.
> ANS4007E Error processing '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/
> sapConnector.cfg': access to the object is denied
> Normal File-->   330 /Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/
> sapConnector.cfg.bak  ** Unsuccessful **
> ANS1228E Sending of object '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/
> sapConnector.cfg.bak' failed.
> ANS4007E Error processing '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/
> sapConnector.cfg.bak': access to the object is denied
> 
> (skipped some lines)
> 
> ANS1802E Incremental backup of '/Airwarder' finished with 90 failure(s)
> 
> 
> Total number of objects inspected:5,881
> Total number of objects backed up:5,791
> Total number of objects updated:  0
> Total number of objects rebound: 

Netapp snapdiff issues having TSM client on a Linux machine, making use of NFS mounts

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,

Following to IBM's decision to withdraw the web GUI in the latest versions of 
their clients (thus making NDMP hardly usable), as well as to the renewal of 
our NAS infrastructure (now using Netapp), I'm trying to implement netapp 
snapdiffs in our shop.

So far we succeeded in defining necessary user and roles on the Netapp, as well 
as to setup the TSM client in order to interact with our filer, but I'm now 
facing an issue where some files cannot be backed up, apparently due to access 
rights.

Here an extract of our backup log :

IBM Spectrum Protect
Command Line Backup-Archive Client Interface
  Client Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.0
  Client date/time: 09/18/2018 10:26:28
(c) Copyright by IBM Corporation and other(s) 1990, 2017. All Rights Reserved.

Node Name: NETAPP_CH1_NFS
Session established with server XXX: Linux/ppc64le
  Server Version 8, Release 1, Level 4.000
  Server date/time: 09/18/2018 10:26:28  Last access: 09/18/2018 10:00:37


Incremental by snapshot difference of volume '/Airwarder'

Connected to NetApp Storage Virtual Machine
Management Filer Host/IP Address : 
Filer Version Information: NetApp Release 9.3P3: Wed Apr 04 
13:07:06 UTC 2018
Storage VM Name  : xxx
Storage VM Host/IP Address   : XX
Storage VM Volume Style  : Flex
Login User   : tsm-backup-user
Transport: HTTPS

Performing a Full Incremental Backup of volume '/Airwarder'
Using Base Snapshot 
'vserverdr.0.7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_102500' with 
timestamp 09/18/2018 10:25:02
ANS4007E Error processing 
'/Airwarder/.snapshot/vserverdr.0.7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_102500/acrimport_ref/ch':
 access to the object is denied
ANS4007E Error processing 
'/Airwarder/.snapshot/vserverdr.0.7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_102500/acrimport_test/ch':
 access to the object is denied
ANS1898I * Processed   500 files *
Directory-->   4,096 /Airwarder/ [Sent]
Directory-->   4,096 /Airwarder/.etc [Sent]

(skipped some lines)

ANS1228E Sending of object '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/log4j.conf' failed.
ANS4007E Error processing '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/log4j.conf': access 
to the object is denied
Normal File-->   309 
/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg  ** Unsuccessful **
ANS1228E Sending of object '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg' 
failed.
ANS4007E Error processing '/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg': 
access to the object is denied
Normal File-->   330 
/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg.bak  ** Unsuccessful **
ANS1228E Sending of object 
'/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg.bak' failed.
ANS4007E Error processing 
'/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg.bak': access to the object is 
denied

(skipped some lines)

ANS1802E Incremental backup of '/Airwarder' finished with 90 failure(s)


Total number of objects inspected:5,881
Total number of objects backed up:5,791
Total number of objects updated:  0
Total number of objects rebound:  0
Total number of objects deleted:  0
Total number of objects expired:  0
Total number of objects failed:  90
Total number of objects encrypted:0
Total number of objects grew: 0
Total number of retries: 15
Total number of bytes inspected:   1.27 GB
Total number of bytes transferred: 1.37 GB
Data transfer time:   18.61 sec
Network data transfer rate:   77,367.92 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate: 36,807.03 KB/sec
Objects compressed by:0%
Total data reduction ratio:0.00%
Elapsed processing time:   00:00:39


Here, a closer look at some of the files making problems  :

root@xx:~ # ls -al /Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg.bak
-rw-r- 1 root root 330 May  6  2009 
/Airwarder/acrimport_ref/config/sapConnector.cfg.bak


root@xx:~ # ls -la 
/Airwarder/.snapshot/vserverdr.0.7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_121000/acrimport_ref/ch
ls: cannot open directory 
/Airwarder/.snapshot/vserverdr.0.7b5a59c4-656c-11e8-bb80-00a098d614c2.2018-09-18_121000/acrimport_ref/ch:
 Permission denied

And who I am:

root@xx:~ # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

Any idea on how to solve such issues ?

Cheers.

Arnaud


Backup and Recovery Systems Administrator
Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
e-mail: 

Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client backing up against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Stefan,

I do not want to enter the details of a 6 months lasting story, but to 
summarize it, such performance tests have been successfully conducted against 
our very first setup, which in between time has been subject to countless 
changes (TSM version, O.S. version, endianness from Big to Little endian, 
extension of the FS900 capacity, redesign of the storage pools layout and so 
on), the whole under huge time pressure, having the result that the current 
setup could not be benchmarked anymore, as it was already productive ...

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018 2:10 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client backing up 
against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool

I understand, I didn't know you were that deep into the case already, I
wouldn't presume to be able to solve this via a few emails if support is
working on it.

What I am interested in is did you run the blueprint benchmarks? the perl
script that can benchmark your database and your containerpool volumes?
The blueprints give values that you should be getting in order to expect
blueprint performance results, this way you can quantify your performance
issue in how many IOP/s or MB/s your behind where you need to be to run the
load you need to run.

Regards,
Stefan




On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 2:10 PM, PAC Brion Arnaud <
arnaud.br...@panalpina.com> wrote:

> Dear Stefan,
>
> Thanks a lot for your very kind offer !
>
> Without underrating the power of this list, I however doubt that we will
> able to find a solution that easily : we opened a case with IBM and
> involved EMC/Dell as well, so far without much success, even after 5 months
> intensive monitoring and tuning attempts at all levels (Linux kernel,
> communication layer, TSM DB fixes, access mode change on Isilon etc ...)
>
> I must share as well that some of our partners voices raised when the
> decision had been made to go with Isilon storage, warning us that the
> offered solution would not be powerful enough to sustain the intended
> workload. It might very well be that they were right, and that in this
> particular case, budget considerations have ruled over pragmatism, leading
> to that very uncomfortable situation ...
>
> To finally answer your question : both active log and database are stored
> on a Flashsytem 900 array, dedicated to TSM server only.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Arnaud
>
> 
> 
> Backup and Recovery Systems Administrator
> Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
> CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
> Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
> Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
> e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
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>
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> 
> 
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Stefan Folkerts
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 7:43 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client
> backing up against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool
>
> That's no fun, maybe we can help!
> What storage are you using for your active log and database?
>
> Regards,
>Stefan
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:06 PM, PAC Brion Arnaud <
> arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for appreciated feedback !
> >
> > >> You can, however, disable compression on the storagepool-level.
> >
> > This is unfortunately what I intended to avoid : if I disable it, then
> > lots of clients will be impacted, and the server's performance will for
> > sure improve ...
> >
> > >> Are you using an IBM blueprint configuration for the Spectrum Protect
> >
> > I wish I could : my life would have been much easier ! Unfortunately
> > management took the (definitively bad) decision to invest in a EMC/Dell
>

Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client backing up against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Chavdar,

Yes, that was one of IBM's first requests when we opened this case, 
unfortunately nothing obvious came out of it ...

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Chavdar Cholev
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 8:22 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client backing up 
against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool

Hi Arnaud,
did you run tsm server instrumentation.
It could  help to identify where the issue is.
We have tsm server that is connected to FS900 and vtl with v5k and no perf.
issues.

Best regards
Chavdar

On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, PAC Brion Arnaud <arnaud.br...@panalpina.com>
wrote:

> Dear Stefan,
>
> Thanks a lot for your very kind offer !
>
> Without underrating the power of this list, I however doubt that we will
> able to find a solution that easily : we opened a case with IBM and
> involved EMC/Dell as well, so far without much success, even after 5 months
> intensive monitoring and tuning attempts at all levels (Linux kernel,
> communication layer, TSM DB fixes, access mode change on Isilon etc ...)
>
> I must share as well that some of our partners voices raised when the
> decision had been made to go with Isilon storage, warning us that the
> offered solution would not be powerful enough to sustain the intended
> workload. It might very well be that they were right, and that in this
> particular case, budget considerations have ruled over pragmatism, leading
> to that very uncomfortable situation ...
>
> To finally answer your question : both active log and database are stored
> on a Flashsytem 900 array, dedicated to TSM server only.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Arnaud
>
> 
> 
> Backup and Recovery Systems Administrator
> Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
> CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
> Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
> Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
> e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
> This electronic message transmission contains information from Panalpina
> and is confidential or privileged.
> This information is intended only for the person (s) named above. If you
> are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or
> use or any other action based on the contents of this
>  information is strictly prohibited.
>
> If you receive this electronic transmission in error, please notify the
> sender by e-mail, telephone or fax at the numbers listed above. Thank you.
> 
> 
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Stefan Folkerts
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 7:43 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client
> backing up against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool
>
> That's no fun, maybe we can help!
> What storage are you using for your active log and database?
>
> Regards,
>Stefan
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:06 PM, PAC Brion Arnaud <
> arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for appreciated feedback !
> >
> > >> You can, however, disable compression on the storagepool-level.
> >
> > This is unfortunately what I intended to avoid : if I disable it, then
> > lots of clients will be impacted, and the server's performance will for
> > sure improve ...
> >
> > >> Are you using an IBM blueprint configuration for the Spectrum Protect
> >
> > I wish I could : my life would have been much easier ! Unfortunately
> > management took the (definitively bad) decision to invest in a EMC/Dell
> > Isilon array to be our Spectrum Scale server storage.
> > I'm now fighting since 6 months to have the whole working together, so
> far
> > without real success : performance is horrible  :-(
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
> > Stefan Folkerts
> > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2018 5:48 PM
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Subject: Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client
> > backing up against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > With the directory containerpool you cannot, for as far as I know,
&

Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client backing up against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Dear Stefan,

Thanks a lot for your very kind offer !  

Without underrating the power of this list, I however doubt that we will able 
to find a solution that easily : we opened a case with IBM and involved 
EMC/Dell as well, so far without much success, even after 5 months intensive 
monitoring and tuning attempts at all levels (Linux kernel, communication 
layer, TSM DB fixes, access mode change on Isilon etc ...)

I must share as well that some of our partners voices raised when the decision 
had been made to go with Isilon storage, warning us that the offered solution 
would not be powerful enough to sustain the intended workload. It might very 
well be that they were right, and that in this particular case, budget 
considerations have ruled over pragmatism, leading to that very uncomfortable 
situation ... 

To finally answer your question : both active log and database are stored on a 
Flashsytem 900 array, dedicated to TSM server only.

Cheers.

Arnaud


Backup and Recovery Systems Administrator
Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 7:43 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client backing up 
against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool

That's no fun, maybe we can help!
What storage are you using for your active log and database?

Regards,
   Stefan

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:06 PM, PAC Brion Arnaud <arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
> wrote:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> Thanks a lot for appreciated feedback !
>
> >> You can, however, disable compression on the storagepool-level.
>
> This is unfortunately what I intended to avoid : if I disable it, then
> lots of clients will be impacted, and the server's performance will for
> sure improve ...
>
> >> Are you using an IBM blueprint configuration for the Spectrum Protect
>
> I wish I could : my life would have been much easier ! Unfortunately
> management took the (definitively bad) decision to invest in a EMC/Dell
> Isilon array to be our Spectrum Scale server storage.
> I'm now fighting since 6 months to have the whole working together, so far
> without real success : performance is horrible  :-(
>
> Cheers.
>
> Arnaud
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Stefan Folkerts
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2018 5:48 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client
> backing up against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool
>
> Hi,
>
> With the directory containerpool you cannot, for as far as I know, disable
> an attempt to deduplicate the data and if the data is able to deduplicate
> it will be deduplicated.
> You can, however, disable compression on the storagepool-level. If you
> disable it on the containerpool client-side settings for deduplication will
> have no effect on compression within the pool.
>
> Are you using an IBM blueprint configuration for the Spectrum Protect
> environment?
>
> Regards,
>Stefan
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:06 PM, PAC Brion Arnaud <
> arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Following to global client backup performance issues on some new TSM
> > server, which I suspect to be related to the workload induced on TSM
> > instance by deduplication/compression operations, I would like to do some
> > testing with a client, selectively disabling compression or
> deduplication,
> > possibly both of them on it.
> >
> > However, the TSM server has been configured to only make use of
> > directory-based storage pools, which have been defined having
> deduplication
> > and compression enabled.
> >
> > Thus my q

Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client backing up against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks a lot for appreciated feedback !

>> You can, however, disable compression on the storagepool-level.

This is unfortunately what I intended to avoid : if I disable it, then lots of 
clients will be impacted, and the server's performance will for sure improve ...

>> Are you using an IBM blueprint configuration for the Spectrum Protect

I wish I could : my life would have been much easier ! Unfortunately management 
took the (definitively bad) decision to invest in a EMC/Dell Isilon array to be 
our Spectrum Scale server storage. 
I'm now fighting since 6 months to have the whole working together, so far 
without real success : performance is horrible  :-(

Cheers.

Arnaud 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2018 5:48 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client backing up 
against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool

Hi,

With the directory containerpool you cannot, for as far as I know, disable
an attempt to deduplicate the data and if the data is able to deduplicate
it will be deduplicated.
You can, however, disable compression on the storagepool-level. If you
disable it on the containerpool client-side settings for deduplication will
have no effect on compression within the pool.

Are you using an IBM blueprint configuration for the Spectrum Protect
environment?

Regards,
   Stefan


On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:06 PM, PAC Brion Arnaud <arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Following to global client backup performance issues on some new TSM
> server, which I suspect to be related to the workload induced on TSM
> instance by deduplication/compression operations, I would like to do some
> testing with a client, selectively disabling compression or deduplication,
> possibly both of them on it.
>
> However, the TSM server has been configured to only make use of
> directory-based storage pools, which have been defined having deduplication
> and compression enabled.
>
> Thus my question : is there any mean to configure a client, so that its
> data  will not be compressed or deduplicated ?
>
> From my understanding, setting up "compression no" in the client option
> file will be of no use, as the server will still be compressing the data at
> storage pool level.
> Likewise, setting up "deduplication no" in the client option file will
> refrain the client to proceed to deduplication, but the server still will.
> The last remaining possibility  that I can think of, to disable
> deduplication, would be to make use of some "exclude.dedup" statement on
> client side, that would exclude anything subject to backup.
>
> What are your thoughts ? Am I condemned to define new storage pools not
> enabled for deduplication and or compression to do such testing, or is
> there some other mean ?
>
> Thanks a lot for appreciated feedback !
>
> Cheers.
>
> Arnaud
>
> 
> 
> Backup and Recovery Systems Administrator
> Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
> CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
> Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
> Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
> e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com<mailto:arnaud.br...@panalpina.com>
> This electronic message transmission contains information from Panalpina
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>
> If you receive this electronic transmission in error, please notify the
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> 
> 
>

disabling compression and/or deduplication for a client backing up against deduped/compressed directory-based storage pool

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,

Following to global client backup performance issues on some new TSM server, 
which I suspect to be related to the workload induced on TSM instance by 
deduplication/compression operations, I would like to do some testing with a 
client, selectively disabling compression or deduplication, possibly both of 
them on it.

However, the TSM server has been configured to only make use of directory-based 
storage pools, which have been defined having deduplication and compression 
enabled.

Thus my question : is there any mean to configure a client, so that its data  
will not be compressed or deduplicated ?

>From my understanding, setting up "compression no" in the client option file 
>will be of no use, as the server will still be compressing the data at storage 
>pool level.
Likewise, setting up "deduplication no" in the client option file will refrain 
the client to proceed to deduplication, but the server still will.
The last remaining possibility  that I can think of, to disable deduplication, 
would be to make use of some "exclude.dedup" statement on client side, that 
would exclude anything subject to backup.

What are your thoughts ? Am I condemned to define new storage pools not enabled 
for deduplication and or compression to do such testing, or is there some other 
mean ?

Thanks a lot for appreciated feedback !

Cheers.

Arnaud


Backup and Recovery Systems Administrator
Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
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Re: v7.1.8/8.1.2 SSL Upgrade: Rethinking servers first or clients first

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Another alternative  : define a script named "OP_ADMIN_CONTROL"

Having following content :

del schedule OP_ADMIN_LOOP_CTL type=administrative   
[your update admin command]
def schedule OP_ADMIN_LOOP_CTL type=a cmd="run OP_ADMIN_CONTROL" active=yes 
startt=now+0:10 peru=o


Cheers.

Arnaud

**
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Harris, Steven
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2018 2:57 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: v7.1.8/8.1.2 SSL Upgrade: Rethinking servers first or clients first

Eric

Really old-school...

Schedule a one time admin schedule to run a script that as the last step 
schedules itself again some time in the future

e.g

def scr reset_fred
upd scr reset_fred 'upd admin fred  sessionsecurity=transitional'   line=5  
 check the syntax
upd scr reset_fred 'upd sched reset_fred  t=a start=+0:05'  line=10


def sched reset_fred t=a cmd='run reset_fred'  active=yes  


Regards

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin/Consultant
Canberra Australia



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, 
Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM
Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2018 2:00 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] v7.1.8/8.1.2 SSL Upgrade: Rethinking servers first or 
clients first

Hi Krzysztof,
Agreed, it will work but it sure aint pretty. And again, we are trying to find 
a fix for something IBM has broken...
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
Air France/KLM Storage Engineering


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Krzysztof Przygoda
Sent: dinsdag 6 maart 2018 15:40
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: v7.1.8/8.1.2 SSL Upgrade: Rethinking servers first or clients first

Hi Eric
Solution for admin schedule to run more often without crontabs is to have 
several of them starting at different moment of each hour (startt value).
Eg:
def sched ADMIN_TRANSITIONAL_1 type=admin active=yes  STARTT=15:01 CMD="RUN 
ADMIN_TRANSITIONAL" duru=min peru=hour def sched ADMIN_TRANSITIONAL_2 
type=admin active=yes  STARTT=15:11 CMD="RUN ADMIN_TRANSITIONAL" duru=min 
peru=hour etc.
I know, this make the "fix" even more ridiculous ...but again, it works:-)

Kind regards
Krzysztof

2018-03-06 15:17 GMT+01:00 Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM <
eric-van.l...@klm.com>:

> Hi Roger,
> I'm struggling with the exact same issues as you are. I'm running a
> 7.1.8 server and all procedures we are using for years to deploy new 
> clients fail because of the admins STRICT issue. And migrating 
> existing (< 7.1.8) versions from another server to this 7.1.8 server 
> is only possible after a manual update of the admin to TRANSITIONAL, 
> each and every time. You can't bypass this by installing the 
> certificate first because the dsmcert utility does not exist in pre-7.1.8 
> clients!
> I really think IBM has screwed up here big time. They clearly 
> underestimated the impact of this "small" security "enhancements" they 
> implemented. :-( I too thought about the fix of having the admin 
> account updated to TRANSITIONAL every minute or so, but I haven't been 
> able to find a way through the administrative scheduler to schedule a 
> command more often that once per hour (PERunits=H)... So you have to 
> build your own scripts and schedule it through cron, which isn't 
> allowed in our shop.
> I too have a hard time finding a simple solution. I think the best 
> thing IBM could do is admit that they have underestimated this issue 
> and create a
> 7.1.8.100 patch level with the option to set an admin account to 
> TRANSITIONAL permanently.
> Kind regards,
> Eric van Loon
> Air France/KLM Storage Engineering
>
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> Of Deschner, Roger Douglas
> Sent: vrijdag 2 maart 2018 2:00
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: v7.1.8/8.1.2 SSL Upgrade: Rethinking servers first or 

Re: empty containers?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Remco,

No direct answer to your question, but your statement " dedup on SQL is 
non-existant" is kind of astonishing me ...

Here an extract of the output for "q stg DIR_SQL f=d" on my server (you guessed 
it, this stgpool is dedicated to SQL backups ...) :

Deduplication Savings: 34,513 G (60.21%)
   Compression Savings: 17,517 G (76.81%)
 Total Space Saved: 52,030 G (90.77%)

Altogether 90,7 % data reduction !

I would be curious to hear what our TSM fellows in this list are achieving ...

Cheers.

Arnaud


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco 
Post
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 3:06 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: empty containers?

Hi All,

today I ran into something new: an empty directory container. No, not an empty 
directory, and empty container. We’re moving SQL backups from directories to 
traditional tape, dedup on SQL is non-existant, so tape is cheaper, and after 
the expiration period the container pool should be empty. Well this being the 
real world and all, of course I have a few containers left. Move container bla 
bla to reduce disk usage. All nice, exceprt for some containers that are now 
empty, thus can’t be moved… How do I get rid of those? TSM server level 
8.1.1.100

-- 

 Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

Remco Post
r.p...@plcs.nl
+31 6 248 21 622

Re: Select statement for deduplication & compression statistics ...

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Anders,

Whished it would be that simple ...

Unfortunately, there are quite a lot of discrepancies between the data reported 
by our query, and the output from "q stg", like demonstrated  here :

Output for "q stg xxx f=d"

DIR_DB2 :  Deduplication Savings: 7,018 G (27.69%)
   Compression Savings: 10,696 G (58.36%)
DIR_EXCH : Deduplication Savings: 40,039 G (71.34%)
   Compression Savings: 6,369 G (39.59%)
DIR_INF :  Deduplication Savings: 0 (0%)
   Compression Savings: 1,695 G (71.90%)
DIR_ORA :  Deduplication Savings: 871 G (42.30%)
   Compression Savings: 959 G (80.74%)
DIR_SQL :  Deduplication Savings: 2,438 G (55.50%)
   Compression Savings: 1,616 G (82.63%)
DIR_UNIX : Deduplication Savings: 2,070 G (8.29%)
   Compression Savings: 17,350 G (75.75%)
DIR_VM :   Deduplication Savings: 16,347 G (45.92%)
   Compression Savings: 10,787 G (56.04%)
DIR_WIN :  Deduplication Savings: 7,018 G (27.69%)
   Compression Savings: 10,697 G (58.35%)

Output of your query :


STGPOOL_NAME Dedup savings   
Compression savings
 --- 
---
DIR_DB2  29.3500%
63.3200%
DIR_EXCH 71.8600%
40.6300%
DIR_INF  .%  
35.4000%
DIR_ORA  17.7000%
23.6800%
DIR_SQL  34.1200%
34.3200%
DIR_UNIX 8.0800% 
73.6800%
DIR_VM   44.8700%
53.7100%
DIR_WIN  3.1800% 
2.9900%

Some results are relatively close, but some other ones (dir_inf, dir_ora, 
dir_sql, dir_win) are totally divergent ...

This is exactly my problem !

This might be due to the fact that the total capacity of my storage array is 
quite huge (Estimated Capacity: 3,098,067 G), shared by all the storage pools, 
and that TSM reported Pct Util precision is not good enough (one decimal only), 
or even something else (reclamable space, additional data for replication ?)  
no idea ... But the values are not matching :(

I'm wondering if IBM could not be making use of the dedupstats table to get its 
values ... I' working on this at present time ...

Cheers.

Arnaud

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Anders 
Räntilä
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 10:30 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Select statement for deduplication & compression statistics ...

Hi

This is simple math

select 
stgpool_name,DEDUP_SPACE_SAVED_MB/(DEDUP_SPACE_SAVED_MB+COMP_SPACE_SAVED_MB+(EST_CAPACITY_MB*PCT_UTILIZED/100))*100||'%'
 as "Dedup savings" from stgpools

select 
stgpool_name,COMP_SPACE_SAVED_MB/(COMP_SPACE_SAVED_MB+(EST_CAPACITY_MB*PCT_UTILIZED/100))*100||'%'
 as "Compression savings" from stgpools


Best Regards
Anders Räntilä

Select statement for deduplication & compression statistics ...

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,

Simple question : did any of you succeeded in building a query that would 
provide accurate statistics on deduplication and compression factors for the 
new TSM directory-based pools ?

I would simply get following :

Stgpool name, space that would be used without dedup & compression, dedup 
savings GB , dedup savings %, compression savings GB, compression savings %, 
total data reduction GB, total data reduction %

Basically, a "q stg f=d" is able to report such information (with the exception 
of space that would be used without dedup & compression), as following example 
shows :

 Storage Pool Name: DIR_DB2
 Storage Pool Type: Primary
 Device Class Name:
  Storage Type: DIRECTORY
Cloud Type:
 Cloud URL:
Cloud Identity:
Cloud Location:
Estimated Capacity: 3,222,437 G
Space Trigger Util:
  Pct Util: 0.2
(skipped data)
Deduplication Savings: 7,095 G (31.34%)
   Compression Savings: 9,548 G (61.42%)
 Total Space Saved: 16,644 G (73.51%)

However, the "stgpools" table is only providing following related fields : 
TOTAL_SPACE_MB (which is always empty),SPACE_SAVED_MB, 
COMP_SPACE_SAVED_MB,DEDUP_SPACE_SAVED_MB.

What magic does IBM use to be able to display percentages for compression and 
dedup  in "q stg f=d" output ? So far I could not found it ...


Thanks in advance for any hint !

Cheers.

Arnaud


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Re: finding remaining replication workload

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Rick,

You saved my day ! 

Thanks a lot for your help : now that I know what table to look after, I'll 
improve your query a bit to fit my needs, and I'll be good ;-)

Cheers.

Arnaud 


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Adamson
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 2:41 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: finding remaining replication workload

The information is in the REPLICATIONVIEW table.

Something like this:
select NODE_NAME, START_TIME, cast(TOTBYTES_TO_REPLICATE/1024/1024 as integer) 
from REPLICATIONVIEW where START_TIME>=(current_timestamp-24 hours) order by 
TOTBYTES_TO_REPLICATE desc

It will display date left to replicate largest to smallest amount in megabytes. 

-Rick Adamson

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 8:13 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] finding remaining replication workload

Hi Rick,

Thanks a lot for the tip : I never paid attention to this, probably because my 
first experiences with the new O.C. were so disappointing ;-)

Note that I'm still taker for some SQL query that would allow me to build my 
homegrown reports ...

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Adamson
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 1:55 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: finding remaining replication workload

Arnaud,
Did you try looking in the operations center?
Select "Clients" from the menu, there is a column "Replication Workload" that 
provides the amount of data per node that has not been replicated.

-Rick Adamson


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:45 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] finding remaining replication workload

Hi Team,

We are working on a new TSM environment (still experimenting),  where we 
entirely rely on TSM replication features to ensure disaster resiliency.
We therefore installed two Spectrum Protect servers (8.1.1.0), which are making 
exclusively use of directory based storage pools to store client data (one 
exception for NDMP based backups which are landing on file based stgpools). 
Both servers are configured to replicate each other.

Protect stgpool as well as replicate node operations are scheduled to be 
executed on a regular basis, but it appears that even after these have been 
executed,  the S.P. operation center still reports a certain workload of data 
to be replicated. Unfortunately, without any detail on which node might be the 
culprit.

I therefore would be interested to know if any of you succeeded in writing a 
query that would report the name of nodes, filespaces, and data amount still to 
be replicated !

Thanks for any hint !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Re: finding remaining replication workload

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Rick,

Thanks a lot for the tip : I never paid attention to this, probably because my 
first experiences with the new O.C. were so disappointing ;-)

Note that I'm still taker for some SQL query that would allow me to build my 
homegrown reports ...

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Adamson
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 1:55 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: finding remaining replication workload

Arnaud,
Did you try looking in the operations center?
Select "Clients" from the menu, there is a column "Replication Workload" that 
provides the amount of data per node that has not been replicated.

-Rick Adamson


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 6:45 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] finding remaining replication workload

Hi Team,

We are working on a new TSM environment (still experimenting),  where we 
entirely rely on TSM replication features to ensure disaster resiliency.
We therefore installed two Spectrum Protect servers (8.1.1.0), which are making 
exclusively use of directory based storage pools to store client data (one 
exception for NDMP based backups which are landing on file based stgpools). 
Both servers are configured to replicate each other.

Protect stgpool as well as replicate node operations are scheduled to be 
executed on a regular basis, but it appears that even after these have been 
executed,  the S.P. operation center still reports a certain workload of data 
to be replicated. Unfortunately, without any detail on which node might be the 
culprit.

I therefore would be interested to know if any of you succeeded in writing a 
query that would report the name of nodes, filespaces, and data amount still to 
be replicated !

Thanks for any hint !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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finding remaining replication workload

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Team,

We are working on a new TSM environment (still experimenting),  where we 
entirely rely on TSM replication features to ensure disaster resiliency.
We therefore installed two Spectrum Protect servers (8.1.1.0), which are making 
exclusively use of directory based storage pools to store client data (one 
exception for NDMP based backups which are landing on file based stgpools). 
Both servers are configured to replicate each other.

Protect stgpool as well as replicate node operations are scheduled to be 
executed on a regular basis, but it appears that even after these have been 
executed,  the S.P. operation center still reports a certain workload of data 
to be replicated. Unfortunately, without any detail on which node might be the 
culprit.

I therefore would be interested to know if any of you succeeded in writing a 
query that would report the name of nodes, filespaces, and data amount still to 
be replicated !

Thanks for any hint !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Re: Disable Client option ENABLEINSTRUMENTATION

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Michael,

Is this AIX, Linux or Windows ?

Cheers.

Arnaud

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Michael Malitz
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 2:08 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Disable Client option ENABLEINSTRUMENTATION

Hallo List-Experts.

we would like to disable the BA Client option ENABLEINSTRUMENTATION.  According
to BA Client documentation,

this should be possible via client option set.  BUT is is NOT.

Any ideas of rolling out this change to > 1000 Clients in an "easy to do" way?.


rgds michael

Re: Delete filespace operation not replicated ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Paul,

Thanks a lot for appreciated feedback !

I discussed this with some consultant in between time, who is not the same mind 
than IBM support : this might be working "as designed" , but in this case, the 
design is clearly flawed !
I might admit that the deletion on replication server would not be immediate, 
due to some settings like the "Delay Period for Container Reuse" one, but the 
fact that deletion does not take place at all is definitely wrong to my eyes. 

Regarding your kind offer for scripts to help in such a situation : thanks a 
lot, but fortunately such "forced" deletion of file spaces in TSM is not very 
common in our shop, and I do believe that, despite my old age, I still will be 
able to type an additional  "del fi" command on the replication server when 
needed ;-)

Cheers.

Arnaud
 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul 
van Dongen
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2017 9:20 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Delete filespace operation not replicated ?

Hi Arnaud, 

I posted a similar question a few months ago. Got no answers from the list, but 
after opening a PMR I got the "works as designed" answer.
Since we use a script to delete filespaces in our environment (to check last 
backup dates, customer IDs, etc.) we inserted some extra code to check if the 
node is involved in replication, and, if so, check which server is the 
replication partner in order to delete the correct filespace on the "target" 
server.

Please send me a private message if you need more details.


Kind regards/Met vriendelijke groet,

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: dinsdag 20 juni 2017 12:46
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Delete filespace operation not replicated ?

Hi all,

A question regarding replicated data , and how a deleted filespace should be 
treated by the process ...
First of all, the environment : two TSM servers 7.1.7.2, making use only of 
directory pools and configured to perform cross replication (A replicates to B, 
and B replicates to A).
I have the situation where I recently deleted a filespace from a node on its 
primary server.
Since this deletion, following processes took place on the primary server : 
protect stgpool, as well as replicate node and expire inventory.
However, I can still see the deleted filespace on the replication server for 
the involved replicated node.
Is this normal ?

Thanks for any advice !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Delete filespace operation not replicated ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi all,

A question regarding replicated data , and how a deleted filespace should be 
treated by the process ...
First of all, the environment : two TSM servers 7.1.7.2, making use only of 
directory pools and configured to perform cross replication (A replicates to B, 
and B replicates to A).
I have the situation where I recently deleted a filespace from a node on its 
primary server.
Since this deletion, following processes took place on the primary server : 
protect stgpool, as well as replicate node and expire inventory.
However, I can still see the deleted filespace on the replication server for 
the involved replicated node.
Is this normal ?

Thanks for any advice !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Re: freezing a final backup of a vm

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi,

Not sure either if this apar  has been solved, but the web page give a solution 
to the problem : "Rename the filespace back to its original name to regain 
access to this data from the client.". Thus in the case of a restore request, 
you would just have to rename the current filespace name to xxx_current and 
rename the freezed one to the current one ... Has to be tested though !

Two other means I could think of : rename the VM in ESX, and do a backup with 
the new name, then name it back to original name.

Or, a much more complicated approach : make use of another target node name, 
same style than this : http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21688752

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Marco 
Batazzi
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 2:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: R: freezing a final backup of a vm

Hello,
Maybe is not still the case but renaming vm filespace is  not fully supported: 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC92869

Open a support ticked to be sure.

Regards

MB


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Da: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] Per conto di PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Inviato: venerdì 5 maggio 2017 13:57
A: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Oggetto: Re: [ADSM-L] freezing a final backup of a vm

Hi Gary,

In this case you might make use of "rename filespace" command : just rename the 
filespace corresponding to your VM, and start a fresh backup.
Doing so will allow to keep your old VM  backup data freezed.

Cheers.

Arnaud



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 1:27 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: freezing a final backup of a vm

To Mark:

Thanks for the link.
However, I must not have made myself clear.
We need something more akin to the backupset.
Freeze a backup while allowing further backups to take place afterward.  Are 
these allowed on an individual vm?

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark 
Beta
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 7:12 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] freezing a final backup of a vm

Hello Gary,
take a look @ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21659826.
If you have tdp for ve 7.1 or upper, the vm last backup will stay until "expire 
vm" command will be executed.

Regards.

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Lee, Gary <g...@bsu.edu> wrote:

> I have a request to freeze a backup of a vm using tsm for ve for one 
> year after its decommissioning.
> What happens here is that the vm is turned off, and converted into a 
> template.
> If I do nothing, will its backups be retained as active, even though I 
> don't back up templates?
> If not, how to fulfill this request?
> Tsm server 7.1.7.1.
>

Re: freezing a final backup of a vm

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Gary,

In this case you might make use of "rename filespace" command : just rename the 
filespace corresponding to your VM, and start a fresh backup.
Doing so will allow to keep your old VM  backup data freezed.

Cheers.

Arnaud



-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lee, 
Gary
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 1:27 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: freezing a final backup of a vm

To Mark:

Thanks for the link.
However, I must not have made myself clear.
We need something more akin to the backupset.
Freeze a backup while allowing further backups to take place afterward.  Are 
these allowed on an individual vm?

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark 
Beta
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 7:12 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] freezing a final backup of a vm

Hello Gary,
take a look @ http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21659826.
If you have tdp for ve 7.1 or upper, the vm last backup will stay until
"expire vm" command will be executed.

Regards.

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Lee, Gary  wrote:

> I have a request to freeze a backup of a vm using tsm for ve for one year
> after its decommissioning.
> What happens here is that the vm is turned off, and converted into a
> template.
> If I do nothing, will its backups be retained as active, even though I
> don't back up templates?
> If not, how to fulfill this request?
> Tsm server 7.1.7.1.
>

Re: Questions related to Container pools

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Del,

Thanks a lot for clear and appreciated feedback !

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del 
Hoobler
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 7:26 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Questions related to Container pools

Hi Arnaud,

For question #1 ... The reason the information is in the document is 
because Spectrum Protect restricts it. Stay tuned though, this could be 
allowed soon.

For question #2 ... The only reason we recommend using 1 pool is strictly 
for the best possible deduplication rates AND the because container pools 
can grow much larger in size than its legacy counterparts. For legacy 
pools, the housekeeping that was required on the pool made it impossible 
to grow a pool too large (identify, reclamations, etc..). With container 
pools, this is no longer an issue, so we wanted to call that out. If you 
want to split container pools up, knowing the potential dedup rates 
fallout, that's perfectly fine ... there are no other 
repercussions/issues. We have a lot of customers who have done this, 
primarily around the partitioning of data sources (VE, TDPs, BA, etc.)

Thank you,

Del

=


"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 05/03/2017 
10:47:52 AM:

> From: PAC Brion Arnaud <arnaud.br...@panalpina.com>
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 05/03/2017 10:49 AM
> Subject: Questions related to Container pools
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
> 
> Hi Team !
> 
> IBM recently released an interesting document summarizing best 
> practices with regards to container storage pools (https://
> www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli
> Storage Manager/page/Container Pool Best Practices ) and some of the
> information in it triggered two questions, which I would like some 
> Spectrum Protect insider (Del ?) or anyone having good knowledge of 
> this to answer ...
> 
> First question :  page 14 of the PDF document, chapter 1.4 , states 
> that it is not appropriate to use container pools in the case of 
> NDMP backups. What is the reason for it ? My understanding is that 
> it is possible to make use of NDMP without a tape based storage 
> pool, thus I don't get the point here ...
> 
> Second question : several references in the book are seeming to 
> stress that one should make use of ONE SINGLE container storage pool
> for a whole TSM server (chapter 1.2.5.1.2 page 13, chapter 1.5.1 
> page 15). I do understand that deduplication is made at storage pool
> level, and that segregating backup data in several storage pools 
> will weaken deduplication rates, but are there some other reasons 
> which are not explained in the book, that would justify the use of 
> only ONE container pool (like more hammering on the TSM DB during 
> backup times if we make use of several storage pools, or others I 
> did not think about)
> We plan to build a new TSM environment which will be based only on 
> container storage pool(s ?), and I feel kind of uncomfortable to 
> send all of my data in the same bucket (less granularity for 
> reporting, auditing, protecting and so on ...).  Does someone have 
> arguments (pro or cons) or experience to share about this ?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your feedback !
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Arnaud
> 
> 
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Questions related to Container pools

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Team !

IBM recently released an interesting document summarizing best practices with 
regards to container storage pools 
(https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli 
Storage Manager/page/Container Pool Best Practices ) and some of the 
information in it triggered two questions, which I would like some Spectrum 
Protect insider (Del ?) or anyone having good knowledge of this to answer ...

First question :  page 14 of the PDF document, chapter 1.4 , states that it is 
not appropriate to use container pools in the case of NDMP backups. What is the 
reason for it ? My understanding is that it is possible to make use of NDMP 
without a tape based storage pool, thus I don't get the point here ...

Second question : several references in the book are seeming to stress that one 
should make use of ONE SINGLE container storage pool for a whole TSM server 
(chapter 1.2.5.1.2 page 13, chapter 1.5.1 page 15). I do understand that 
deduplication is made at storage pool level, and that segregating backup data 
in several storage pools will weaken deduplication rates, but are there some 
other reasons which are not explained in the book, that would justify the use 
of only ONE container pool (like more hammering on the TSM DB during backup 
times if we make use of several storage pools, or others I did not think about)
We plan to build a new TSM environment which will be based only on container 
storage pool(s ?), and I feel kind of uncomfortable to send all of my data in 
the same bucket (less granularity for reporting, auditing, protecting and so on 
...).  Does someone have arguments (pro or cons) or experience to share about 
this ?

Thanks in advance for your feedback !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on power system

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Rick,

The setup will look like following :

2 datacenters, each equipped with one TSM server (Power S824l) and one Isilon 
cluster made of 5 x NL410 nodes. Connectivity to TSM server will be made thru 2 
X 10 gbs connections/node, so altogether 100 gbs. Each TSM server will also be 
attached to an IBM Flash System 900 array, allowing for around 4 TB database 
storage.

Our goal is to be able to ingest around 35 TB/day/site, against deduplicated 
directory container pools, in around 8 hours, and to have that data replicated 
cross-site for each TSM server, to allow for Disaster Recovery purposes.

Cheers.

Arnaud
 

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Adamson
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 1:51 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on 
power system

Arnaud,



Thanks for the feedback, I just received delivery of two Isilons yesterday, one 
for our production DC and another for DR, hopefully I won't regret it.

All of my TSM/ISP servers run on MS Windows 2012 R2 so NFS won't be an issue.



For several years we have used Data Domain but it was reaching its end of 
service. One of my biggest concerns is if it will be able to handle the 
workload or become a performance bottleneck.



I'll post back more info as I get them deployed and up to speed



Can you expand on your model, number of nodes and network connectivity ?



Thanks again



-Rick Adamson





-Original Message-

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud

Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 5:57 AM

To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for 
Linux on power system



Hi Zoltan,



Many reasons for it, which I'll try to shortly summarize :



1) Isilon makes use of NFS, whose performance is not that good on AIX systems. 
We are an AIX shop, and are forced to move to Power Linux machines to get 
sufficient performance to cover our backup needs.

Our first experience with Power Linux machines revealed serious lacks in the 
functionalities we are accustomed to : no easy HMC setup, thus lack of call 
home capabilities so far. In addition to this we needed to setup a RedHat 
satellite server to allow for installation on remote servers, and so far are 
unable to boot our machines from it ... This will probably work sooner or 
later, but requires lots of involvement and time from our sys-admins.



2) Isilon is not perfectly fitting in a big TSM environment. In order to get 
decent performance, a third party tool will be needed, whose name is dsmISI. 
See following : 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__stefanradtke.blogspot.ch_2015_06_how-2Dto-2Doptimize-2Dtsm-2Doperations-2Dwith.html=DwIGaQ=AzgFQeXLLKhxSQaoFCm29A=uJG3UnPaeoz9naeIzbwWFddVED8ETOYHxjoACoofi2Y=IvL1NDqYjCA6eIK2-Dzb4BB_fBbpaVFQ5qhxSny2G4I=kpqDyDb694uLBMIK6iSla9-xv73XJeNfOXU4XAwfyCI=
  This means another layer of complexity in the setup, and another vendor to 
talk to, if facing performance issues. I had more than my lot of "ping-pong" 
games during my career as TSM administrator, between IBM and other vendors, to 
reject the responsibility on each other in case of issues. Having 3 parties 
involved in our setup will make such games even more frequent ...



3) User base for such a combination in Switzerland is inexistent, at least in 
the same order of size than ours. EMC has not been able to provide any customer 
reference in this country, with whom we could talk to about their setup. There 
must be a good reason for it ...



4) Compatibility issues : this was more kind of a guts feeling I had, but as 
usually, it revealed to be true : see the problems I will now be facing with 
Little/Big endian versions of TSM/Spectrum Protect (without to mention that 
Spectrum Protect 8.1 is not even available for Power Linux so far). I'm 
currently facing another one : the Isilon we got is running OneFS 8, and 
there's so far no official statement that it is supported, whether by TSM or by 
dsmISI. A downgrade to OneFS 7.x revealed to be impossible, due to the fact 
that the 8 TB disks installed in the machine are not supporting it ...



5) Support by EMC : revealed to be less efficient than the one offered by IBM. 
Since EMC merged with Dell, it became even worse (for a non-native English 
speaking person, having a call with support based in India is a nightmare). 
Also our storage administrator informed me that from his experience, upgrade 
procedures on EMC devices where much more complicated than the ones for IBM 
hardware, and almost always required intervention of the vendor to be conducted 
properly (lots of dependencies in microcodes, switch versions and so on ...)



6) Costs ...



Of course, your mileage may vary, but in our case I'm pretty sure that 
management made the wrong choice (I would hav

Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on power system

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Zoltan,

Many reasons for it, which I'll try to shortly summarize :

1) Isilon makes use of NFS, whose performance is not that good on AIX systems. 
We are an AIX shop, and are forced to move to Power Linux machines to get 
sufficient performance to cover our backup needs.
Our first experience with Power Linux machines revealed serious lacks in the 
functionalities we are accustomed to : no easy HMC setup, thus lack of call 
home capabilities so far. In addition to this we needed to setup a RedHat 
satellite server to allow for installation on remote servers, and so far are 
unable to boot our machines from it ... This will probably work sooner or 
later, but requires lots of involvement and time from our sys-admins.

2) Isilon is not perfectly fitting in a big TSM environment. In order to get 
decent performance, a third party tool will be needed, whose name is dsmISI. 
See following : 
http://stefanradtke.blogspot.ch/2015/06/how-to-optimize-tsm-operations-with.html
 This means another layer of complexity in the setup, and another vendor to 
talk to, if facing performance issues. I had more than my lot of "ping-pong" 
games during my career as TSM administrator, between IBM and other vendors, to 
reject the responsibility on each other in case of issues. Having 3 parties 
involved in our setup will make such games even more frequent ...

3) User base for such a combination in Switzerland is inexistent, at least in 
the same order of size than ours. EMC has not been able to provide any customer 
reference in this country, with whom we could talk to about their setup. There 
must be a good reason for it ...

4) Compatibility issues : this was more kind of a guts feeling I had, but as 
usually, it revealed to be true : see the problems I will now be facing with 
Little/Big endian versions of TSM/Spectrum Protect (without to mention that 
Spectrum Protect 8.1 is not even available for Power Linux so far). I'm 
currently facing another one : the Isilon we got is running OneFS 8, and 
there's so far no official statement that it is supported, whether by TSM or by 
dsmISI. A downgrade to OneFS 7.x revealed to be impossible, due to the fact 
that the 8 TB disks installed in the machine are not supporting it ...

5) Support by EMC : revealed to be less efficient than the one offered by IBM. 
Since EMC merged with Dell, it became even worse (for a non-native English 
speaking person, having a call with support based in India is a nightmare). 
Also our storage administrator informed me that from his experience, upgrade 
procedures on EMC devices where much more complicated than the ones for IBM 
hardware, and almost always required intervention of the vendor to be conducted 
properly (lots of dependencies in microcodes, switch versions and so on ...)

6) Costs ...

Of course, your mileage may vary, but in our case I'm pretty sure that 
management made the wrong choice (I would have gone IBM Spectrum Scale in 
conjunction with an AIX based server : one vendor, blueprints provided, and 
guaranteed performance).

Cheers.

Arnaud


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan 
Forray
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 4:38 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on 
power system

Arnaud,

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 9:21 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud <
arnaud.br...@panalpina.com> wrote:

> because our management (despite my warnings not to do so) decided that the
> target storage for backups would be an EMC Isilon, that connects to the TSM
> server using NFS mounts.


A little off topic for this thread but why do you feel it is a "bad idea"
to use EMC Isilon for TSM target storage for backups?  We are leaning in
this direction and in fact have such a configuration for our offsite
replication target server. We are aggressively moving away from expensive
VNX storage to Isilon.  So I am curious why you feel the way you do?




--
*Zoltan Forray*
Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator
Xymon Monitor Administrator
VMware Administrator (in training)
Virginia Commonwealth University
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Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on power system

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Del,

Again, thanks for your feedback !

Unfortunately this is a nightmare scenario for us : we have almost no other 
platform choice than a Power Linux machine for our upcoming Spectrum Protect 
project, because our management (despite my warnings not to do so) decided that 
the target storage for backups would be an EMC Isilon, that connects to the TSM 
server using NFS mounts.  
AIX is not an option, as its implementation of NFS protocol is not efficient 
enough, and Linux on X86 platform neither is, due to its much lower I/O 
capabilities (we are speaking of an environment supposed to ingest 35 TB 
/day/server, making use only of deduplicated directory-container storage pools 
...)
For now, the Isilon storage has already been delivered, and we end with a setup 
able to run TSM 7.1.X properly, but with no options anymore to upgrade to 
Spectrum protect 8.1 and higher.
Of course, at the time were the decision had been taken to make use of Isilon 
storage (end of December 2016), none of our consultants at IBM had been able to 
pinpoint such an issue ...

This is really, really bad :-(

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del 
Hoobler
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 1:24 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on 
power system

Hi Arnaud,

As a general IBM statement, Linux on Power is transitioning from Big 
Endian to Little Endian. This has been underway for a few years. Here are 
a few blogs from IBM when this started a few years ago:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/just_the_faqs_about_little_endian?lang=en
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/More_FAQs_about_Little_Endian_An_Update?lang=en

This means that applications for Linux on Power are also transitioning 
from Big Endian to Little Endian, including Spectrum Protect.

Spectrum Protect 7.1 supports Linux on Power Big Endian, but Spectrum 
Protect 8.1 does not. Spectrum Protect 8.1 is targeted to add support for 
Linux on Power Little Endian in the 1H of this year.


Del




"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 02/09/2017 
03:24:30 AM:

> From: PAC Brion Arnaud <arnaud.br...@panalpina.com>
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 02/09/2017 03:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software 
> for Linux on power system
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
> 
> Hi Del,
> 
> Thanks a lot too, for what I would call "conflictual" information ...
> Do you have any link available that would confirm your saying ?
> For us it is paramount to have a guaranteed information, as we are 
> about to buy a machine, which MUST be the right one !
> 
> And, if I may ask : from this page http://www-01.ibm.com/support/
> docview.wss?uid=swg21108042 it seems that the 7.1.1 version of TSM 
> server for Linux on Power is built for Big Endian. In that case why 
> would IBM be willing to deliver the next version only for Little 
> Endian ? This looks totally inconsistent to my eyes
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Arnaud
> 
> 
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> CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
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> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On 
> Behalf Of Del Hoobler
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 3:03 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software 
> for Linux on power system
> 
> IBM is a planning a pLinux (Little Endian) Spectrum Protect server in 
the 
> 1H of this year.
> 
> 
> Del
> 
> 

Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on power system

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Del,

Thanks a lot too, for what I would call "conflictual" information ...
Do you have any link available that would confirm your saying ?
For us it is paramount to have a guaranteed information, as we are about to buy 
a machine, which MUST be the right one !

And, if I may ask : from this page 
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21108042 it seems that the 
7.1.1 version of TSM server for Linux on Power is built for Big Endian. In that 
case why would IBM be willing to deliver the next version only for Little 
Endian ? This looks totally inconsistent to my eyes

Cheers.

Arnaud

**
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Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del 
Hoobler
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 3:03 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on 
power system

IBM is a planning a pLinux (Little Endian) Spectrum Protect server in the 
1H of this year.


Del




"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 02/08/2017 
08:56:39 AM:

> From: PAC Brion Arnaud <arnaud.br...@panalpina.com>
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 02/08/2017 08:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software 
> for Linux on power system
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
> 
> Hi Anders,
> 
> Thanks a lot for fast feedback !
> This will for sure ruin our plans for a cheaper environment :-(
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> Arnaud
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On 
> Behalf Of Anders Räntilä
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 2:26 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software 
> for Linux on power system
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/srv.common/
> r_techchg_srv_opsys_810.html
> 
> Support for the following operating systems is discontinued:
> 
> HP-UX
> Linux on Power SystemsT (big endian)
> Oracle Solaris
> 
> /Anders Räntilä
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On 
> Behalf Of PAC Brion Arnaud
> Sent: den 8 februari 2017 14:18
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server 
> software for Linux on power system
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We are planning for a migration of our current TSM environment to 
> Spectrum Protect 8.1 instances, which are deemed to be running on a 
> Power Linux machine (Power S824L).
> I'm however unable to find the corresponding server software on IBM 
> passport advantage site ... The latest version available for 
> download for such a platform is TSM 7.1.1, as well as a maintenance 
> level 7.1.7.
> Does anyone have knowledge on if SP 8.1 for Power Linux is available
> somewhere, or on its release date if still not existing ?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any feedback !
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Arnaud
> 
> 
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Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on power system

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Anders,

Thanks a lot for fast feedback !
This will for sure ruin our plans for a cheaper environment :-(

Best regards.

Arnaud


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Anders 
Räntilä
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2017 2:26 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on 
power system

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/srv.common/r_techchg_srv_opsys_810.html

Support for the following operating systems is discontinued:

HP-UX
Linux on Power SystemsT (big endian)
Oracle Solaris

/Anders Räntilä


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: den 8 februari 2017 14:18
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for 
Linux on power system

Hi All,

We are planning for a migration of our current TSM environment to Spectrum 
Protect 8.1 instances, which are deemed to be running on a Power Linux machine 
(Power S824L).
I'm however unable to find the corresponding server software on IBM passport 
advantage site ... The latest version available for download for such a 
platform is TSM 7.1.1, as well as a maintenance level 7.1.7.
Does anyone have knowledge on if SP 8.1 for Power Linux is available somewhere, 
or on its release date if still not existing ?

Thanks a lot for any feedback !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Availability for Spectrum Protect 8.1 server software for Linux on power system

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,

We are planning for a migration of our current TSM environment to Spectrum 
Protect 8.1 instances, which are deemed to be running on a Power Linux machine 
(Power S824L).
I'm however unable to find the corresponding server software on IBM passport 
advantage site ... The latest version available for download for such a 
platform is TSM 7.1.1, as well as a maintenance level 7.1.7.
Does anyone have knowledge on if SP 8.1 for Power Linux is available somewhere, 
or on its release date if still not existing ?

Thanks a lot for any feedback !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Re: restructuring tsm db into several smaller filesystesm

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Gary

Here, the corresponding documentation :

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IC78489

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21611157

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Krzysztof Przygoda
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2017 11:55 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: restructuring tsm db into several smaller filesystesm

Hi Gary

You can do it backup .. drop .. restore way but you might also try way
which is possible to be done even on working server.

1. add new storage paths  by extend dbspace
2. from db2 run rebalance on each tablespace eg:
db2 alter tablespace LARGESPACE1 rebalance
and then reduce max on each:
db2 alter tablespace LARGESPACE1 reduce max
2. from db2 drop old space with :
alter database drop storage on '/bla/bla', '/bla/bla'
(dont worry what it does is to leave data and just doesn't write new data
to the disk)
3. db2 rebalance/reduce on each tablespace again
4. In the end old dbspaces should shrink to some initial size (like 1GB or
so) and will disappear at next restart.

You will not find this solution in tsm manuals (dont know why?)  but its
tested and working:)
Keep in mind that some tricky rebalance rules come in place here (like to
rebalance 1G tablespace into two 500M on new path you have to provide 1G
initially to have it even started) so if you want to spread some big
tablespaces into many small ones its recommended to do it in few loops...

Have Fun
Krzysztof Przygoda


2016-12-30 15:02 GMT+01:00 Lee, Gary :

> TSM server 6.3.4
> Running on RHEL 6.7
>
> Finally received a 24 drive disk shelf to attach to my tsm server.
> Now want to move the db from a single mirrored disk pair to four smaller
> raided disks to gain speed.
>
> I can add the new directories easily enough, but how to remove the old db
> directory to re-use the disk space?
>

EMC Isilon vs. IBM ESS as a TSM backup target

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,

We are currently planning for our next TSM-based backup infrastructure, 
thinking to make use of container type storage pools for most of our backup 
needs.
Our biggest issue so far is to decide on the hardware platform that should be 
used as a backup target.
Two competitors are still in the game to this point : EMC's Isilon and IBM's 
ESS (spectrum scale).
Of course, both have been described to us by the vendors as being the best 
platform for such purposes, providing necessary capacity as well as throughput, 
and I must admit that, on paper, everything looks very promising.
I would now like to hear from you (real world users, TSM consultants ...) about 
these systems : if you had a chance to choose between both, what would your bet 
be, and for what reason ?
Most of my recent lectures on this topic highlighted ease of use as the most 
positive aspect in favor of Isilon, and compliancy with IBM's blueprints for 
ESS.
I'm now curious to hear what YOUR arguments would be ;-)

Thanks for any feedback, success/horror stories and gossips that you would be 
willing to share !

Cheers.

Arnaud

Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Erwann,

Thanks for your input : I had a look at the video which clarified few points, 
but not all of them ...
One question : if using deduped and compressed pool, shall the "compression" 
option on the node definition be left to default "client" value, or must I 
update it to "no" ?
I'm asking because I updated my container pools yesterday to use compression, 
and this morning compression rate on this storage pool is still zero :-(

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Erwann 
SIMON
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 11:18 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

Hi all,

TSM deduplication is effective combined with compression. Without compression, 
I'm not sure that it worths what it costs (1:2,5 ratio or 65% is what I 
generally see with mixed data and "standard" retention).

You all should whatch this Tricia Jiang's video on YouTube (from 7:11) : 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISWRrkY5RS8

-- 
Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي
Erwann SIMON

- Mail original -
De: "PAC Brion Arnaud" <arnaud.br...@panalpina.com>
À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Envoyé: Vendredi 18 Mars 2016 15:41:06
Objet: [ADSM-L] Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

Hi All,

We are currently testing TSM 7.1 deduplication feature, in conjunction with 
container based storage pools.
So far, my test TSM instances, installed with such a setup are reporting dedup 
percentage of 45 %, means dedup factor around 1.81, using a sample of clients 
which are representative of our production environment.
This is unfortunately pretty far from what was promised by IBM (dedup factor of 
4) ...

I'm wondering if anybody making use of container based storage pools and 
deduplication would be sharing his deduplication factor, so that I could have a 
better appreciation of real world figures.
If you would be so kind to share your information (possibly with the kind of 
backed-up data  i.e. VM, DB, NAS, Exchange, and retention values ...) I would 
be very grateful !

Thanks in advance for appreciated feedback.

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Re: Deduplication questions, again

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Matthew,

Just a question : how do you know the size of pre-dedup data ?

Did you make use of backup reports on each clients to get that information, or 
built some query based on  dedupstats table, or anything else ?

Here again, I cannot seem to find coherent information in TSM output ...

Let's take an example :

q occ CH2RS901 /

Node Name  Type Filespace  FSID Storage  Number ofPhysical Logical
NamePool NameFiles   Space   Space
  OccupiedOccupied
  (MB)(MB)
--  --  -- --- --- ---
CH2RS901   Bkup / 4 CONT_STG 8,148   -  165.78

So, from "q occ" output we have 165.78 MB logical space occupied

But:

q dedupstats CONT_STG CH2RS901 / f=d

 Date/Time: 03/22/16   16:03:30
 Storage Pool Name: CONT_STG
 Node Name: CH2RS901
Filespace Name: /
  FSID: 4
  Type: Bkup
 Total Data Protected (MB): 167
 Total Space Used (MB): 36
Total Space Saved (MB): 131
   Total Saving Percentage: 78.34
 Deduplication Savings: 137,056,854
  Deduplication Percentage: 78.34
 Non-Deduplicated Extent Count: 8,161
Non-Deduplicated Extent Space Used: 7,903,461
   Unique Extent Count: 6
  Unique Extent Space Used: 100,858
   Shared Extent Count: 3,176
  Shared Extent Data Protected: 166,937,957
  Shared Extent Space Used: 29,783,486
   Compression Savings: 0
Compression Percentage: 0.00
   Compressed Extent Count: 0
 Uncompressed Extent count: 11,343

If I trust this output, I have backed up 167 MB, and TSM deduped it down to 36 
MB ...

Could anyone explain how it comes that TSM "q occ" finds a "logical space 
occupied" of 165.78 MB ? Shouldn't it be 36 MB ?

The help of "q occ" command states :

Logical Space Occupied (MB)
 The amount of space that is occupied by logical files in the
 file space. Logical space is the space that is actually used to
 store files, excluding empty space within aggregates. For this
 value, 1 MB = 1048576 bytes.

I'm lost here ...

Cheers.

Arnaud


From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Matthew McGeary
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 2:23 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU<mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Subject: Re: Deduplication questions, again

Arnaud,

I too am seeing odd percentages where containerpools and dedup is concerned.  I 
have a small remote server pair that protects ~23 TB of pre dedup data, but my 
containerpools show an occupancy of ~10 TB, which should be a data reduction of 
over 50%.  However, a q stg on the containerpool only shows a data reduction 
ratio of 21%.  Of note, I use client-side dedup on all the client nodes at this 
particular site and I think that's mucking up the data reduction numbers on the 
containerpool.  The 21% figure seems to be the reduction AFTER client-side 
dedup, not the total data reduction.

It's confusing.

On the plus side, I just put in the new 7.1.5 code at this site and the 
compression is working well and does not appear to add a noticeable amount  CPU 
cycles during ingest.  Since the install date on the 18th, I've backed up 
around 1 TB pre-dedup and the compression savings are rated at ~400 GB, which 
is pretty impressive.  I'm going to do a test restore today and see how it 
performs but so far so good.
__

Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist - Infrastructure
PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
www.potashcorp.com<http://www.potashcorp.com>

From:PAC Brion Arnaud 
<arnaud.br...@panalpina.com<mailto:arnaud.br...@panalpina.com>>
To:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU<mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
Date:03/22/2016 03:52 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] Deduplication questions, again
Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
<ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU<mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>>





Hi All,

Another question in regards of TSM container based deduplicated pools ...

Are you experiencing the same behavior than this : using "q stg f=d" targeting 
a deduped container based storage pool, I observe following output :


q stg f=d

   Storage Pool Name: CONT_STG
   Storage Pool Type: Primary
   Device Class Name:
Storage Type: DIRECTORY
  Cloud Type:
   Cloud URL:
  Cloud Identity:
  Cloud Location:
  Estima

Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

@Del,

Additional  question : if replicating compressed data, will the data be 
transmitted compressed or uncompressed ?

Cheers.

Arnaud


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Alexander Heindl
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 3:19 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

Hi,

but already client side compressed data isn't affected, isn't it?
what if data is replicated. Is that data then compressed?

Regards,
Alex




Von:Del Hoobler <hoob...@us.ibm.com>
An: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU,
Datum:  22.03.2016 15:14
Betreff:Re: [ADSM-L] Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1
and container pools
Gesendet von:   "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>



Hi David,

No. Only newly stored data will be compressed.


Del




"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 03/22/2016
09:41:27 AM:

> From: David Ehresman <david.ehres...@louisville.edu>
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 03/22/2016 09:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container
pools
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
>
> Del,
>
> After upgrading to 7.1.5 is there a way to get pre-existing
> container data compressed?
>
> David
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Del Hoobler
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 5:53 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1
> and container pools
>
> I think most of you know Spectrum Protect just added in-line compression


> to the container and cloud deduplicated pools in version 7.1.5:
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?
> u=http-3A__www.ibm.com_support_knowledgecenter_SSGSG7-5F7.1.
>
5_srv.common_r-5Ftechchg-5Fsrv-5Fcompress-5F715.html=AwIFAg=SgMrq23dbjbGX6e0ZsSHgEZX6A4IAf1SO3AJ2bNrHlk=dOGCMY197NTNH1k_wcsrWS3_fxedKW4rpKJ8cHCD2L8=OMHhA4Nmsv9Buo24T83zOFo8w4mvoMyvC_nagZn36T0=C4shp8VD_EyXjruT5Lu2v68tMVpfpzHcluAuRJfaIK0=
>
> Adding incremental forever, the new in-line deduplication - client or
> server-based (7.1.3), new in-line compression (7.1.5) I think you will
> find that Protect continues to drive overall data reduction. This is
being
> done in the software, so you can choose what disk you want to use.
>
> I encourage folks to try out the the new deduplication along with the
new
> compression to see how it helps with the overall data reduction.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Del
>
> 
>
>
>
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 03/18/2016
> 10:41:06 AM:
>
> > From: PAC Brion Arnaud <arnaud.br...@panalpina.com>
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> > Date: 03/18/2016 10:41 AM
> > Subject: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container
pools
> > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > We are currently testing TSM 7.1 deduplication feature, in
> > conjunction with container based storage pools.
> > So far, my test TSM instances, installed with such a setup are
> > reporting dedup percentage of 45 %, means dedup factor around 1.81,
> > using a sample of clients which are representative of our production
> > environment.
> > This is unfortunately pretty far from what was promised by IBM
> > (dedup factor of 4) ...
> >
> > I'm wondering if anybody making use of container based storage pools
> > and deduplication would be sharing his deduplication factor, so that
> > I could have a better appreciation of real world figures.
> > If you would be so kind to share your information (possibly with the
> > kind of backed-up data  i.e. VM, DB, NAS, Exchange, and retention
> > values ...) I would be very grateful !
> >
> > Thanks in advance for appreciated feedback.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Arnaud
> >
> >
>
**
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> > Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
> > CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
> > Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
> > Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
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> > intended only for the person (s) named above. If you are not the
> > intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use or
> > any other action based on the contents of this information is
> > strictly prohibited.
> >
> > If you receive this electronic transmission in error, please notify
> > the sender by e-mail, telephone or fax at the numbers listed above.
> Thank you.
> >
>
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> >
>

Deduplication questions, again

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,

Another question in regards of TSM container based deduplicated pools ...

Are you experiencing the same behavior than this : using "q stg f=d" targeting 
a deduped container based storage pool, I observe following output :


q stg f=d

Storage Pool Name: CONT_STG
Storage Pool Type: Primary
Device Class Name:
 Storage Type: DIRECTORY
   Cloud Type:
Cloud URL:
   Cloud Identity:
   Cloud Location:
   Estimated Capacity: 5,087 G
   Space Trigger Util:
 Pct Util: 55.8
 Pct Migr:
  Pct Logical: 100.0
 High Mig Pct:

Skipped few lines ...

   Compressed: No
Deduplication Savings: 0 (0%)
  Compression Savings: 0 (0%)
Total Space Saved: 0 (0%)
   Auto-copy Mode:
Contains Data Deduplicated by Client?:
 Maximum Simultaneous Writers: No Limit
  Protection Storage Pool: CONT_STG
  Date of Last Protection: 03/22/16   05:00:27
 Deduplicate Requires Backup?:
Encrypted:
   Space Utilized(MB):

Note the "deduplication savings" output ( 0 %)

However, using "q dedupstats" on the same stgpool, I get following output : 
(just a snippet of it)

Date/Time: 03/17/16   16:31:24
Storage Pool Name: CONT_STG
Node Name: CH1RS901
   Filespace Name: /
 FSID: 3
 Type: Bkup
  Total Saving Percentage: 78.11
Total Data Protected (MB): 170

Date/Time: 03/17/16   16:31:24
Storage Pool Name: CONT_STG
Node Name: CH1RS901
   Filespace Name: /usr
 FSID: 4
 Type: Bkup
  Total Saving Percentage: 62.25
Total Data Protected (MB): 2,260

How does it come that on one side I witness dedup, but not on the other one ?

Thanks for enlightenments !

Cheers.

Arnaud

Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Del,

Thanks for notifying that new feature : I will test it immediately !
I'm however sorry to inform you that contrarily to your assumption, and despite 
the fact that I subscribed to "IBM my notifications"  as well as to " Technical 
Support Newsletter", both related to Spectrum protect, that information did not 
make its way to me ... 
I assume that lots of TSM admins, all of them being pretty occupied by daily 
business activities, and not mandatorily having enough time to seek information 
are in the same case !
I incidentally learnt as well thru your link that " Repair damaged data on a 
replication target" feature had been added in TSM 7.1.5, which is definitively 
a good thing, but I find it a shame that such information is not pushed to 
customers thru the means of newsletters, and that we have to dig in the depths 
of IBM's web site to get such  - important - information.
I fully understand that TSM / Spectrum protect has been subject to numerous 
bugs fixes and improvements in the latest months ( I never lived such an 
upgrade waltz during 15 years of TSM administration), but to my eyes there's 
still lot of space for communication improvement by IBM ! 
Of course, only MHO ...

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Del 
Hoobler
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:53 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

I think most of you know Spectrum Protect just added in-line compression 
to the container and cloud deduplicated pools in version 7.1.5:

 
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.5/srv.common/r_techchg_srv_compress_715.html

Adding incremental forever, the new in-line deduplication - client or 
server-based (7.1.3), new in-line compression (7.1.5) I think you will 
find that Protect continues to drive overall data reduction. This is being 
done in the software, so you can choose what disk you want to use.

I encourage folks to try out the the new deduplication along with the new 
compression to see how it helps with the overall data reduction. 


Thank you,

Del





"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 03/18/2016 
10:41:06 AM:

> From: PAC Brion Arnaud <arnaud.br...@panalpina.com>
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 03/18/2016 10:41 AM
> Subject: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> We are currently testing TSM 7.1 deduplication feature, in 
> conjunction with container based storage pools.
> So far, my test TSM instances, installed with such a setup are 
> reporting dedup percentage of 45 %, means dedup factor around 1.81, 
> using a sample of clients which are representative of our production
> environment.
> This is unfortunately pretty far from what was promised by IBM 
> (dedup factor of 4) ...
> 
> I'm wondering if anybody making use of container based storage pools
> and deduplication would be sharing his deduplication factor, so that
> I could have a better appreciation of real world figures.
> If you would be so kind to share your information (possibly with the
> kind of backed-up data  i.e. VM, DB, NAS, Exchange, and retention 
> values ...) I would be very grateful !
> 
> Thanks in advance for appreciated feedback.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Arnaud
> 
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Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Bas,

Thanks for feedback. 

On our side average dedup is 38% for VM's data , with daily incremental and 30 
days retention ...

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bas 
van Kampen
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 12:15 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

We have around 900 VM's in 2 container pools and we get 35% dedup
percentage.

Regards,

Bas van Kampen

On 18-3-2016 15:41, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are currently testing TSM 7.1 deduplication feature, in conjunction with 
> container based storage pools.
> So far, my test TSM instances, installed with such a setup are reporting 
> dedup percentage of 45 %, means dedup factor around 1.81, using a sample of 
> clients which are representative of our production environment.
> This is unfortunately pretty far from what was promised by IBM (dedup factor 
> of 4) ...
>
> I'm wondering if anybody making use of container based storage pools and 
> deduplication would be sharing his deduplication factor, so that I could have 
> a better appreciation of real world figures.
> If you would be so kind to share your information (possibly with the kind of 
> backed-up data  i.e. VM, DB, NAS, Exchange, and retention values ...) I would 
> be very grateful !
>
> Thanks in advance for appreciated feedback.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Arnaud
>
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Re: Help on Directory Container

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Robert,

If not already done, you should have a look at following page : 
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager/page/Directory-container%20storage%20pools%20FAQs
 
There's a note there (Q8) explaining that "protect stgpool" should be used 
before "replicate node". 

In fact if you use the wizard which is now part of the 7.1.x OC to setup 
replication, you will see that it automatically creates some admin schedules 
which are run every 6 hours (can be customized), that are triggering "protect 
stgpool" commands. 
In addition to this, it also schedules a "replicate" job, which is run once a 
day, as part of TSM daily maintenance jobs.

Regarding audit and repair commands :

- Audit container : will by default use the " SCANAll l" options, which 
basically will look for damaged extents in a container. If any problem is 
found, you can then use "q damaged" to get better information on what client 
file has been damaged.

Option REMOVEDamaged means that the damaged extents will be deleted from TSM 
DB. To my mind it should be used only after an unsuccessful "repair" attempt, 
or  if there's no protection pool.
Option MARKDamaged  will force TSM to mark all of the involved container 
extents as damaged. To my mind, it should be used only if willing to forcibly 
delete a container, and should in this case be followed by an audit with option 
REMOVEDamaged.
Option SCANDamaged will force TSM to check again the extents previously marked 
as damaged. It should be used after "repair" command to reset the error 
conditions (which would be reset with SCANAll option too)

- Repair container : well, it is pretty self-explanatory : once client data 
extents have been found damaged, whether by some process, or following to an 
audit command, it will allow you to restore them, on condition that a 
protection storage pool exists, and that "protect stgpool" commands have been 
used. It is the equivalent of "restore stgpool" command , but for directory 
pools.

Hope this helped ...

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert 
Ouzen
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 6:50 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Help on Directory Container

Hi to all

I need a little bit more information about all the administrative process on my 
TSM environment .

I have a TSM server 7.1.5 on an O.S Windows server 2008 R2 64B.
I have mix STGPOOLS , some of type FILE (with DEDUP on server side) and some of 
type DIRECTORY

For now my order process of administrative tasks is:


1.   At late afternoon for few hours , run IDENTIFY DUPLICATES

2.   At morning 07:00 ,   run EXPIRE INVENTORY

3.   After it, run 
BACKUP DB

4.   After it, run 
RECLAIM STG

Now because I created new STGpools with type DIRECTORY (inline dedup), and  
create too an TARGET  server version 7.1.5..
Update my stgpools of type DIRECTORYwith the option:  
PROTECTstgpool=Targetstgppol  (on Target server)

Now the questions:

What will be the correct order process to add the new tasks as:

PROTECT STGPOOL
REPLICATE NODE

And what will be the correct command to repair damage container in source STG   
?

As  AUDIT CONTAINER ( with which options ??) and REPAIR CONTAINER???

T.I.A  Regards

Robert


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Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Michael, Ken and Stephan,

Thanks a lot for valuable input !

Based on your feedback, I believe that IBM is effectively overselling it's 
product  : best value announced is around 65 %, which means dedup factor around 
2.5 ...

Reason why I asked is that we are currently making use of Data Domain VTL's in 
our shop, which at present time have a dedup factor of 7.7, but are aging and 
should soon be retired.
I was wondering if their replacement with a combination of cheap disk storage 
and TSM deduped container would be a good idea ... 
So far I still need to be convinced : disk (IBM, Hitachi ...) is way cheaper 
than a VTL, but TSM dedup rates are seeming to be less than expected : this 
will probably force us to buy more disks, thus making such a solution less 
attractive.

Cheers.

Arnaud

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan 
Folkerts
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 5:32 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

We see around 50-65% deduplication savings on the fileclass storagepools,
most common seems to be around 55%.
It requires what I call "deep reclaims" with very low values that need a
lot of time.
We are seeing 60-70% on containerpools but on average it is more like 65%
but that is based on a much smaller install base.
Both in heterogeneous environments.


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Ken Bury <kenbu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have two 7.1.4 servers, one with devclass file with dedupe, and the other
> is using containers. The two servers are in a node replication pair so the
> data on each server is exactly the same. The workload is almost exclusively
> vmware backups with datamover dedupe and compression. The data reduction
> for both pools is 89%. I like what I am getting from container pools and
> replication.
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 11:35 Ryder, Michael S <michael_s.ry...@roche.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Arnaud
> >
> > If IBM made that commitment in black and white, then you should hold
> their
> > feet to the fire.  But I am willing to bet this was a salesman promising
> > "similar performance."
> >
> > There is no technology I know where any deduplication factor can be
> > guaranteed.  Perhaps "UP to 4" for certain kinds of data...  And overall
> > reduction of storage is what you should be comparing, not simply the
> > deduplication percentage.
> >
> > Here, try reading at least the introduction of this document, " Effective
> > Planning and Use of TSM V6 and V7 Deduplication"
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/form/anonymous/api/wiki/f731037e-c0cf-436e-88b5-862b9a6597c3/page/82e361b4-8e96-42cf-b559-0b77df9aed2c/attachment/5cf980b3-807f-464b-a1c0-b896b0cec7e6/media/TSM%20Dedup%20Best%20Practices%20-%20v2.1.pdf
> >
> > We haven't adopted the directory-container pools yet due to their lacking
> > of support for important features like migration and copy pools, but I
> have
> > no doubt that IBM will be delivering those abilities soon; otherwise,
> there
> > are very limited use-cases for directory-containers.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Mike
> > RMD IT Client Services
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:41 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud <
> > arnaud.br...@panalpina.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > We are currently testing TSM 7.1 deduplication feature, in conjunction
> > > with container based storage pools.
> > > So far, my test TSM instances, installed with such a setup are
> reporting
> > > dedup percentage of 45 %, means dedup factor around 1.81, using a
> sample
> > of
> > > clients which are representative of our production environment.
> > > This is unfortunately pretty far from what was promised by IBM (dedup
> > > factor of 4) ...
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if anybody making use of container based storage pools
> and
> > > deduplication would be sharing his deduplication factor, so that I
> could
> > > have a better appreciation of real world figures.
> > > If you would be so kind to share your information (possibly with the
> kind
> > > of backed-up data  i.e. VM, DB, NAS, Exchange, and retention values
> ...)
> > I
> > > would be very grateful !
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for appreciated feedback.
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > Arnaud
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> *

Real world deduplication rates with TSM 7.1 and container pools

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,

We are currently testing TSM 7.1 deduplication feature, in conjunction with 
container based storage pools.
So far, my test TSM instances, installed with such a setup are reporting dedup 
percentage of 45 %, means dedup factor around 1.81, using a sample of clients 
which are representative of our production environment.
This is unfortunately pretty far from what was promised by IBM (dedup factor of 
4) ...

I'm wondering if anybody making use of container based storage pools and 
deduplication would be sharing his deduplication factor, so that I could have a 
better appreciation of real world figures.
If you would be so kind to share your information (possibly with the kind of 
backed-up data  i.e. VM, DB, NAS, Exchange, and retention values ...) I would 
be very grateful !

Thanks in advance for appreciated feedback.

Cheers.

Arnaud

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Re: schedulde command with date suffixed log file

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Rick,

Thanks a lot for your feedback. Unfortunately, your solution does not seem to 
be working :

def sched aix test_sched  act=command  objects='/tmp/test.sh 
/tmp/test.log.`date '+%d.%m.%Y'` 21' durunits=minutes duration=10 
startt=22:00 peru=o priority=1
ANR2004E Missing value for keyword parameter - +%d.%m.%Y'`.
ANS8001I Return code 3.

Cheers.

Arnaud


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Rick 
Saylor
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 5:32 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: schedulde command with date suffixed log file

Arnaud,

It was unclear whether you wanted the log file on the TSM host or
client. However, I'm assuming that you want to log the output when
the script runs on the client. You'll need to put extra quotes around
the object for this to work. See below:

def sched aix
test_sched  act=command  objects='/tmp/test.sh /tmp/test.log.`date
'+%d.%m.%Y'` 21' durunits=minutes duration=10 startt=now peru=o priority=1

Rick

At 09:27 AM 3/31/2014, you wrote:
Hi all,

A quick one: does anyone have the proper syntax to define a client
schedule (using admin command line, or macro) that would execute a
command having some date-suffixed log file, like :

def sched aix
test_sched  act=command  objects=/tmp/test.sh /tmp/test.log. `date
'+%d.%m.%Y'` 21 durunits=minutes duration=10 startt=now peru=o priority=1

TSM server is 6.3.3.1 and runs under AIX .

I already have tried various combinations of single and double
quotes without success  ...

TIA.

Cheers.

Arnaud



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Re: schedulde command with date suffixed log file

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Dave,

Thanks a lot for both explanations and example.

Using these, I've finally been able to get the command accepted by the server :

tsm: TSM1_XXdef sched aix test_sched  act=command  objects='/tmp/test.sh 
/tmp/test.log.`date +%d.%m.%Y` 21' durunits=minutes duration=10 
startt=10:30 peru=o priority=1
ANR2500I Schedule TEST_SCHED defined in policy domain AIX.

Unfortunately, the execution failed, due to single quotes surrounding the 
command :

04/01/14   10:30:44
Executing Operating System command or script:
   '/tmp/test.sh /tmp/test.log.`date +%d.%m.%Y` 21'
04/01/14   10:30:44 Finished command.  Return code is: 127
04/01/14   10:30:44 ANS1909E The scheduled command failed.
04/01/14   10:30:44 ANS1512E Scheduled event 'TEST_SCHED' failed.  Return code 
= 127.

I then tried my chance with a macro :

DEFINE SCHEDULE AIX TEST_SCHED \
   ACTION=COMMAND  \
   SUBACTION=''\
   OPTIONS=  \
   OBJECTS=/tmp/test.sh /tmp/test.log.`date '+%d.%m.%Y'` 21   \
   PRIORITY=5  \
   STARTDATE=today \
   STARTTIME=now+00:10 \
   DURATION=1  \
   DURUNITS=HOURS  \
   PERUNITS=ONETIME\
   DAYOFWEEK=ANY   \
   EXPIRATION=NEVER

This time it ran successfully :

Scheduled Start  Actual Start Schedule Name Node Name Status
  - - -
04/01/14   11:09:01  04/01/14   11:09:04  TEST_SCHED  Completed


Cheers.

Arnaud


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Bronder
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 6:16 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: schedulde command with date suffixed log file

On 03/31/2014 09:27 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:

 A quick one: does anyone have the proper syntax to define a client schedule 
 (using admin command line, or macro) that would execute a command having some 
 date-suffixed log file, like :

 def sched aix test_sched  act=command  objects=/tmp/test.sh 
 /tmp/test.log.`date '+%d.%m.%Y'` 21 durunits=minutes duration=10 
 startt=now peru=o priority=1

 TSM server is 6.3.3.1 and runs under AIX .

 I already have tried various combinations of single and double quotes without 
 success  ...

First, if you included the objects string verbatim, you have an extra space
between test.log. and the date subshell.

Generally, the most reliable method would be to wrap the entire client
command in a simple shell script on the client.  Then the TSM client just
executes the wrapper and the wrapper handles the shell metacharacters
(redirection, subshell date, etc.).

If that's not an option, you could try something like this:

  ... objects=/usr/bin/sh -c '/tmp/test.sh /tmp/test.log.`date +%d.%m.%Y`
21' ...

The extra quotes around the argument to date aren't usually necessary unless
something else is evaluating the % characters before date gets them.  With
POSIX-compliant shells, including modern sh/ksh, you can also use $(...)
instead of `...` for subshells (may not make a difference here, but can be a
useful tool in the shell arsenal).

=Dave

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Re: schedulde command with date suffixed log file

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Dave, Rick

Once again, thanks for water clear explanations ;-)

Cheers from sunny Switzerland !

Arnaud

schedulde command with date suffixed log file

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi all,

A quick one: does anyone have the proper syntax to define a client schedule 
(using admin command line, or macro) that would execute a command having some 
date-suffixed log file, like :

def sched aix test_sched  act=command  objects=/tmp/test.sh /tmp/test.log. 
`date '+%d.%m.%Y'` 21 durunits=minutes duration=10 startt=now peru=o 
priority=1

TSM server is 6.3.3.1 and runs under AIX .

I already have tried various combinations of single and double quotes without 
success  ...

TIA.

Cheers.

Arnaud

Re: [adsm] Re: Storage pool using scratch volumes instead of empty volumes

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi James,

Are you at least sure that your summary table has been set to keep records 
older than one month ?
Check the entry Activity Summary Retention Period in the output of  q stat 
to verify ...

Cheers.

Arnaud


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Lepre, 
James
Sent: Thursday, 22 December, 2011 16:59
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [adsm] Re: Storage pool using scratch volumes instead of empty 
volumes

Does anyone know how to take this select command which produces only one month 
of data and allow it to go back say 1 year if possible. I have tried to figure 
it out but nothing works

select date(start_time) as Start Date,time(start_time) as Start 
Time,date(end_time) as End Date,time(end_time) as End Time,number as 
Process #,activity,schedule_name,entity,bytes,successful from summary where 
schedule_name='SchedNAME'

Thanks Everyone and Happy Holidays 

  
  
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Re: multi-threaded Exchange backups

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Steve, 

If I'm correct there is a download section in ADSM.ORG forum, that could be 
used for such purposes ...

http://adsm.org/forum/downloads.php

Cheers.

Arnaud

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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Schaub, Steve
Sent: Tuesday, 29 November, 2011 13:23
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: multi-threaded Exchange backups

On that subject, is there a central repository somewhere on this site or 
elsewhere that we could use to share scripts?  I don't mind email, but it 
doesn't help the person who comes looking for an answer a month from now.
-steve schaub

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Richard Sims
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 6:57 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] multi-threaded Exchange backups

When a list participant offers a script or other aid, and instructs those 
interested to contact him or her to obtain a copy, the thing to do is directly 
email that person at the address they provided for this purpose.  This will 
prevent all the annoying me too mails which clutter the inboxes of the 1500 
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Re: tsm and data domain

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Tim,

We are right  conducting a POC with  a pair of DD860, and are relatively 
satisfied with them.  The machines are mostly used as VTL except for a small 
NFS partition which is used or TSM DB backups.
Deduplication rate is OK : around 10 so far, with a good mix of Exchange, 
Oracle, DB2 as well as Win and AIX data.
Ingestion rate is corresponding to our needs, slightly more than  1 GB/s , and 
the possibility to define plenty drives.

Negative or no so impressive  points, so far :  deduplication rate is a 
global factor, impossible to know what type of data dedupes better than 
another one, thus lowering the granularity of deduplication monitoring . 
We also experienced pretty long initialization times for the TSM server 
attached to a virtual library having 100 drives : at restart  TSM server needs 
at least 15 minutes to recognize all the drives, thus generating  numerous 
client errors, as  they try to get a drive which is defined but not available. 
We still have to experiment if defining more smaller libraries would solve that 
issue ... 
At least replication :  it is still unclear  for me what would be happening if 
we do rely on replication to replace copy storage pools, and if our TSM  server 
crashes on primary site while replication is not completed. To my mind the 
virtual volumes contents would not be matching  TSM DB content : not sure so 
far on how to handle such a situation ...

Hope this helped !

Cheers

Arnaud

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim 
Brown
Sent: Thursday, 16 June, 2011 21:50
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: tsm and data domain

Any one use emc's data domain devices for storage pools and replication

Would like to here positive and negative issues.



Thanks,



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Re: tsm and data domain

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the info,  I'll have a closer look at this !

Cheers.

Arnaud

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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Cowen, 
Richard
Sent: Friday, 17 June, 2011 15:15
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: tsm and data domain

Brian,

The DD has dedup by volume.  If you lookup the contents of a volume on TSM, you 
can get an feeling for how dedup varies.
The resulting information is approximate, due to the fact some of the data on 
a DD volume has expired from TSM's point of view, and will not show up in the 
volumeusage table (I don't think.)  Also, the first copy of any chunk will 
have a dedup ratio of 1.
 

filesys show compression /backup/vtc/*/*

/backup/vtc/Default/N00022L3:
 mtime: 1302728324652916847,
 bytes: 47,868,905,726,
 g_comp: 47,521,219,818,
 l_comp: 8,403,079,871,
 meta-data: 154,714,124,
 bytes/storage_used: 5.6

Richard

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of PAC 
Brion Arnaud
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 3:11 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tsm and data domain

Tim,

We are right  conducting a POC with  a pair of DD860, and are relatively 
satisfied with them.  The machines are mostly used as VTL except for a small 
NFS partition which is used or TSM DB backups.
Deduplication rate is OK : around 10 so far, with a good mix of Exchange, 
Oracle, DB2 as well as Win and AIX data.
Ingestion rate is corresponding to our needs, slightly more than  1 GB/s , and 
the possibility to define plenty drives.

Negative or no so impressive  points, so far :  deduplication rate is a 
global factor, impossible to know what type of data dedupes better than 
another one, thus lowering the granularity of deduplication monitoring . 
We also experienced pretty long initialization times for the TSM server 
attached to a virtual library having 100 drives : at restart  TSM server needs 
at least 15 minutes to recognize all the drives, thus generating numerous 
client errors, as  they try to get a drive which is defined but not available. 
We still have to experiment if defining more smaller libraries would solve that 
issue ... 
At least replication :  it is still unclear  for me what would be happening if 
we do rely on replication to replace copy storage pools, and if our TSM  server 
crashes on primary site while replication is not completed. To my mind the 
virtual volumes contents would not be matching TSM DB content : not sure so far 
on how to handle such a situation ...

Hope this helped !

Cheers

Arnaud


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim 
Brown
Sent: Thursday, 16 June, 2011 21:50
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: tsm and data domain

Any one use emc's data domain devices for storage pools and replication

Would like to here positive and negative issues.



Thanks,



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Re: how to delete dataretention license?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Stephan,

To my mind it is not the set event command that changed licensing scheme on 
your machine, but very probably a SET ARCHIVERETENTIONPROTECTION command, 
which basically transforms TSM server into SSAM (archiving system).
This can verified with q status searching for Archive Retention 
Protection:. If ON then the license is required !
Note that such a setup will make archived objects deletion impossible ...

Cheers.

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of TSM
Sent: mercredi 30 mars 2011 14:09
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: how to delete dataretention license?

hello,

after playing with the client command set event -type=hold the tsm server
license in not valid anymore.
dataret.lic is now necessary to be in a valid license.

i am wondering, that a client command can get the tsm server out of
license.

which is the best way to get back in a valid state of license?
(the holded files are now released)

its only a tsm test system, version 5.5.5.


with best regards
Stefan Savoric

Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin again ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Remco  Yudi,

Thanks for your help : I finally succeeded in reinstalling the server instance 
and redefining necessary administrators !

Unfortunately a second bug ruined all my efforts (unable to redefine tape 
drives once their ID has been changed in AIX), and I have now decided to remove 
all of the V 6.2 stuff to revert to good old V5 version, bug free and having a 
decent GUI (the old one).

This is now my third negative experience with V6, and it just confirmed my 
previous feelings : I definitively dislike V6 and am now seriously thinking of 
migrating to some other backup product ...

Cheers.

Arnaud 


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco 
Post
Sent: jeudi 24 février 2011 11:25
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin 
again ?

Hi,

of course, Yudi meant to say run dsmserv from the new instance home directory 
eg /home/tsminst1/tsminst1, because we're in TSM6 land now ;-)

And yes, there are no default admins when you configure the TSM server 
manually. 

On 22 feb 2011, at 12:39, Yudi Darmadi wrote:

 Hi,
 Maybe you can try this: stop tsm server1 service, then start the tsm on 
 foreground, from server/bin directory, run dsmserv. Then try to update the 
 administrator and password from the server console, halt, then start the 
 service in background as normal process.
 
 Yudi Darmadi
 http://www.npp-asia.com
 Sent from XL BlackBerry®
 
 -Original Message-
 From: PAC Brion Arnaud arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
 Sender: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:03:41 
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Reply-To: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the 
 DB virgin again ?
 
 Hi Remco,
 
 Thanks for your hints !
 
 I choosed option db2 drop db TSMDB1, which worked, then removed the 
 contents of DB, LOG and LOGARCH directories, then issued dsmserv format ... 
 which worked too ! So far so good !
 
 I'm now facing next issue : trying to use dsmadmc to enter TSM, I'm unable 
 to find a valid administrator name ...
 The one I previously defined seems not to exist anymore, as well as the 
 standard admin. I'm stuck here.
 
 Shall I now restart dsmicfgx to reconfigure the server ?
 
 Cheers.
 
 Arnaud
 
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 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
 Remco Post
 Sent: mardi 22 février 2011 11:26
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin 
 again ?
 
 first: db2 drop db tsmdb1, or dsmserv removedb tsmdb1, then delete the 
 leftovers
 
 On 22 feb 2011, at 08:57, Steven Harris wrote:
 
 I just did this
 
 shutdown TSM
 delete contents of db, active log and archive log directories,  run
 dsmserv format.
 
 Regards
 
 Steve.
 
 
 On 22/02/2011 12:16 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 
 I  installed a TSM 6.2.0.0 server some times ago, where I'm now facing 
 nasty IC71983 bug (slow Win2k8 system backup objects deletion).
 As this server is just a test instance that I would like to have emptied, 
 and as I would like to avoid to install a maintenance level just in order 
 to be able applying some eFix, I thought that it would be easier to reset 
 the existing server, then to re-inject the previously extracted server 
 scripts into it, using macros.
 Could anyone provide me a list of steps required to reset the DB on a TSM 
 6.2 server ? I do not want to change anything in the DB or LOGS layout, 
 just have the volumes initialized ... I suppose that I should use the 
 dsmserv format command, but would avoid to do mistakes in the brand new 
 (at least for me) DB2 world
 Thanks in advance for your tips !
 Cheers.
 Arnaud
 
 
 
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Re: Cristie BMR Tool

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Woodbm,

I do not use the product, but have seen several demos, the last one some weeks 
ago : basically a bare metal restore product for use with Tivoli, supporting 
all flavours of Windows, several Linuxes and soon AIX,  allowing restores on 
dissimilar hardware.
Works flawless and very efficiently, very reactive support, but not free ;-)

Cheers.

Arnaud


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of woodbm
Sent: jeudi 24 février 2011 16:20
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Cristie BMR Tool

Does anyone use Cristie BMR for TSM?  If so, what is it?  Any information you 
can share would be great.  I assume it is not free, but don't know?

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Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin again ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your help !
I have a problem with your proposal to delete contents of db, active log and 
archive log directories : how are you doing this ? Is it just rm -R * in the 
respective directories ?

Cheers.

Arnaud


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CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven 
Harris
Sent: mardi 22 février 2011 08:57
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin 
again ?

I just did this

shutdown TSM
delete contents of db, active log and archive log directories,  run
dsmserv format.

Regards

Steve.


On 22/02/2011 12:16 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
 Hi All,


 I  installed a TSM 6.2.0.0 server some times ago, where I'm now facing nasty 
 IC71983 bug (slow Win2k8 system backup objects deletion).
 As this server is just a test instance that I would like to have emptied, and 
 as I would like to avoid to install a maintenance level just in order to be 
 able applying some eFix, I thought that it would be easier to reset the 
 existing server, then to re-inject the previously extracted server scripts 
 into it, using macros.
 Could anyone provide me a list of steps required to reset the DB on a TSM 6.2 
 server ? I do not want to change anything in the DB or LOGS layout, just have 
 the volumes initialized ... I suppose that I should use the dsmserv format 
 command, but would avoid to do mistakes in the brand new (at least for me) 
 DB2 world
 Thanks in advance for your tips !
 Cheers.
 Arnaud



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Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin again ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Steve,

I cannnot believe it is that simple (for once with DB2/TSM !) 

Thanks again for your help ;-)

Cheers.

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven 
Harris
Sent: mardi 22 février 2011 09:09
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin 
again ?

yes Arnaud,

I just ran rm -Rf * as the instance owner

Steve.

On 22/02/2011 9:02 PM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
 Hi Steve,

 Thanks for your help !
 I have a problem with your proposal to delete contents of db, active log and 
 archive log directories : how are you doing this ? Is it just rm -R * in 
 the respective directories ?

 Cheers.

 Arnaud


 **
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 Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
 CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
 Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
 e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
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 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
 Steven Harris
 Sent: mardi 22 février 2011 08:57
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin 
 again ?

 I just did this

 shutdown TSM
 delete contents of db, active log and archive log directories,  run
 dsmserv format.

 Regards

 Steve.


 On 22/02/2011 12:16 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
 Hi All,


 I  installed a TSM 6.2.0.0 server some times ago, where I'm now facing nasty 
 IC71983 bug (slow Win2k8 system backup objects deletion).
 As this server is just a test instance that I would like to have emptied, 
 and as I would like to avoid to install a maintenance level just in order to 
 be able applying some eFix, I thought that it would be easier to reset the 
 existing server, then to re-inject the previously extracted server scripts 
 into it, using macros.
 Could anyone provide me a list of steps required to reset the DB on a TSM 
 6.2 server ? I do not want to change anything in the DB or LOGS layout, just 
 have the volumes initialized ... I suppose that I should use the dsmserv 
 format command, but would avoid to do mistakes in the brand new (at least 
 for me) DB2 world
 Thanks in advance for your tips !
 Cheers.
 Arnaud



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 Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
 CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
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 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
 e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
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Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin again ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Steve,

I'm now facing another issue: formatting is ending with following error:

ANR0367W The server failed to format the database TSMDB1. This database name
already exists.
ANR2678E Server database format failed. 

Any idea on this ?

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Steven 
Harris
Sent: mardi 22 février 2011 09:09
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin 
again ?

yes Arnaud,

I just ran rm -Rf * as the instance owner

Steve.

On 22/02/2011 9:02 PM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
 Hi Steve,

 Thanks for your help !
 I have a problem with your proposal to delete contents of db, active log and 
 archive log directories : how are you doing this ? Is it just rm -R * in 
 the respective directories ?

 Cheers.

 Arnaud


 **
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 Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
 CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
 Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
 e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
 **


 -Original Message-
 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of 
 Steven Harris
 Sent: mardi 22 février 2011 08:57
 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
 Subject: Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin 
 again ?

 I just did this

 shutdown TSM
 delete contents of db, active log and archive log directories,  run
 dsmserv format.

 Regards

 Steve.


 On 22/02/2011 12:16 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
 Hi All,


 I  installed a TSM 6.2.0.0 server some times ago, where I'm now facing nasty 
 IC71983 bug (slow Win2k8 system backup objects deletion).
 As this server is just a test instance that I would like to have emptied, 
 and as I would like to avoid to install a maintenance level just in order to 
 be able applying some eFix, I thought that it would be easier to reset the 
 existing server, then to re-inject the previously extracted server scripts 
 into it, using macros.
 Could anyone provide me a list of steps required to reset the DB on a TSM 
 6.2 server ? I do not want to change anything in the DB or LOGS layout, just 
 have the volumes initialized ... I suppose that I should use the dsmserv 
 format command, but would avoid to do mistakes in the brand new (at least 
 for me) DB2 world
 Thanks in advance for your tips !
 Cheers.
 Arnaud



 **
 Corporate IT Systems   Datacenter Responsible
 Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
 CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
 Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
 e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
 **

Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin again ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Remco,

Thanks for your hints !

I choosed option db2 drop db TSMDB1, which worked, then removed the contents 
of DB, LOG and LOGARCH directories, then issued dsmserv format ... which 
worked too ! So far so good !

I'm now facing next issue : trying to use dsmadmc to enter TSM, I'm unable to 
find a valid administrator name ...
The one I previously defined seems not to exist anymore, as well as the 
standard admin. I'm stuck here.

Shall I now restart dsmicfgx to reconfigure the server ?

Cheers.

Arnaud

**
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Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco 
Post
Sent: mardi 22 février 2011 11:26
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin 
again ?

first: db2 drop db tsmdb1, or dsmserv removedb tsmdb1, then delete the leftovers

On 22 feb 2011, at 08:57, Steven Harris wrote:

 I just did this
 
 shutdown TSM
 delete contents of db, active log and archive log directories,  run
 dsmserv format.
 
 Regards
 
 Steve.
 
 
 On 22/02/2011 12:16 AM, PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
 Hi All,
 
 
 I  installed a TSM 6.2.0.0 server some times ago, where I'm now facing nasty 
 IC71983 bug (slow Win2k8 system backup objects deletion).
 As this server is just a test instance that I would like to have emptied, 
 and as I would like to avoid to install a maintenance level just in order to 
 be able applying some eFix, I thought that it would be easier to reset the 
 existing server, then to re-inject the previously extracted server scripts 
 into it, using macros.
 Could anyone provide me a list of steps required to reset the DB on a TSM 
 6.2 server ? I do not want to change anything in the DB or LOGS layout, just 
 have the volumes initialized ... I suppose that I should use the dsmserv 
 format command, but would avoid to do mistakes in the brand new (at least 
 for me) DB2 world
 Thanks in advance for your tips !
 Cheers.
 Arnaud
 
 
 
 **
 Corporate IT Systems  Datacenter Responsible
 Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
 CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
 Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
 e-mail: arnaud.br...@panalpina.com
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reseting 6.2 server : what are the steps to get the DB virgin again ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,


I  installed a TSM 6.2.0.0 server some times ago, where I'm now facing nasty 
IC71983 bug (slow Win2k8 system backup objects deletion).
As this server is just a test instance that I would like to have emptied, and 
as I would like to avoid to install a maintenance level just in order to be 
able applying some eFix, I thought that it would be easier to reset the 
existing server, then to re-inject the previously extracted server scripts into 
it, using macros.
Could anyone provide me a list of steps required to reset the DB on a TSM 6.2 
server ? I do not want to change anything in the DB or LOGS layout, just have 
the volumes initialized ... I suppose that I should use the dsmserv format 
command, but would avoid to do mistakes in the brand new (at least for me) DB2 
world
Thanks in advance for your tips !
Cheers.
Arnaud



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Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland,
CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH
Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01
Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78
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TSM 6.2 + ODBC + MS Access = problems ...

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi list,

Some weird problem here, while trying to build a basic Access-based TSM 
reporting tool :
I managed to get an ODBC connection to my TSM server, and to get the DB2 tables 
linked into Access.
I'm however totally unable to read the filespace_name field in any table 
where it should be appearing (occupancy, filespaces), as it is reported wether 
as  OLE object or long binary data.
Anyone having an idea on how I could read that data ?

TIA for any information !

Cheers.

Arnaud


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Re: How to run a command for a Mac client

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Farren,

Try to add  /some_path/log_file_name at the end of your command.
Also, make sure that there is no quiet commutator in your dsm.opt file, or 
replace it with verbose.

Cheers.

Arnaud 


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Minns, 
Farren - Chichester
Sent: jeudi 7 octobre 2010 15:36
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: How to run a command for a Mac client

Wonderful, that seems to be working :-) Thank you.

One final question though. Can I run this command such that I still see the 
output as I would in the normal dsmsched.log?

Regards

Farren



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
Richard Sims
Sent: 07 October 2010 13:51
To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to run a command for a Mac client

Hi, Farren -

Making progress...
The 127 error is complaining about the path of the command.  I don't see that 
you need the /Server HD at the front of the path spec: have it start with 
/Applications and give that a try, first doing 'ls -l' on the revised path to 
verify the file path, and assure that the file is marked with an 'x' for 
executable.  (In some installs, the Tivoli Storage Manager portion was 
accompanied by a version-release numbering element.)

   Richard Sims

On Oct 7, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Minns, Farren - Chichester wrote:

 Hi Richard
 
 I was just using double quotes, so now use single and double.
 
 The schedule looks as follows and still fails with ANR2579E Schedule 
 MACSERVERS in domain STANDARD for node CHI-XS02 failed
 (return code 127).
 
 Policy Domain Name: STANDARD
 Schedule Name: MACSERVERS
   Description: Mac Servers
Action: Command
   Options:
   Objects: /Server HD/Applications/Tivoli Storage
 Manager/scripts/daily-incrbydate.sh
 
 Regards
 
 Farren
 
 
 
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 From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of 
 Richard Sims
 Sent: 07 October 2010 13:14
 To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu
 Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to run a command for a Mac client
 
 Did you follow the quoting specifications documented for the DEFine SCHedule 
 command, to deal with the blank characters in the string?
 
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 with registered number 641132.
 Registered office address: The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West 
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Re: Syntax for SQL upper in TSM 6.2

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

David,

I must have been doing something wrong in my previous experimentations, as it 
appears that the query I posted yesterday which seemed not to work :

select start_time, end_time, hour(end_time-start_time)||':'|| 
minute(end_time-start_time)||':'|| second(end_time-start_time)as Time 
elapased,entity,processes,bytes,cast(bytes/1024/1024/1024 as decimal(12,4)) as 
GB copied,(cast(bytes as decimal(18,0))/timestampdiff(2,cast((end_time 
-start_time)as decimal(18,0)))/1048576) as MB/second from summary where 
activity='MIGRATION' and cast((current_timestamp-end_time) minutes as decimal) 
0 and timestampdiff(2,(end_time-start_time)) 0 and entity like upper('%$1%')

Is finally working ...


   START_TIME: 2010-06-24 08:41:37.00
 END_TIME: 2010-06-24 08:47:06.00
Time elapased: 0:5:29
   ENTITY: DISKPOOL_WIN
PROCESSES: 1
BYTES: 4766318592
GB copied: 4.
MB/second: 13.8161569148936

Something weird must have been happening in the wonderful Tivoli 
[Dis]Integrated Portal, when it ingested my script ...

Sorry for the ones in the list which may have been inconvenienced by this 
thread, but hopefully it has been a chance for  some of you to get a script for 
monitoring migration processes throughput ;-)

Cheers.

Arnaud 
 


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David 
Bronder
Sent: jeudi 1 juillet 2010 20:54
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Re: Syntax for SQL upper in TSM 6.2

PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:

 My problem is not to only look for some value in a field, but for
 some value as PART of the field, so something like :

 Upper(%'$1'%)

 And this does not work :-(

And as-written, it shouldn't work.  Your full example used '%$1%' (with
the % inside the quotes), which should be correct.  But your simplified
example keeps using %'$1'% (with the % outside the quotes), which is
definitely incorrect.

Try your simplified example with the % wildcards inside the quotes,
and maybe show us the actual errors you're getting back from the full
query you're trying to write.

(Maybe someone else currently running a 6.2 server can try a quick and
simple script with a query involving the upper('%$1%') construct just to
validate that it works correctly in 6.2?)

--
Hello World.David Bronder - Systems Admin
Segmentation Fault ITS-SPA, Univ. of Iowa
Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm.   david-bron...@uiowa.edu

Re: Syntax for SQL upper in TSM 6.2

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi David,

You are right : this should be the correct syntax, however TSM 6.2 does not 
seem to like it :

select start_time, end_time from summary where entity like upper(%'$1'%)

ANR0162W Supplemental database diagnostic information:  -1:42601:-104
([IBM][CLI Driver][DB2/AIX64] SQL0104N  An unexpected token ( was found
following re entity like upper.  Expected tokens may include:  ESCAPE
escape_char.  SQLSTATE=42601
).
ANR0516E SQL processing for statement select start_time , end_time from summary
where entity like upper ( % '$1' % )  failed.
ANS8001I Return code 3. 

As you can see, something is wrong here ...
I also tried all the possible variants with single and double quotes, placed 
before the $1 and after, with no chance :-(

TSM 6.2 is slowly getting on my nerves : interface is miserable, installation 
is a nightmare and most of my monitoring queries will have to be reviewed, to 
generate more complicated code.

What I'm trying to achieve is to get the equivalent of that one, which 
basically provide throughput statistics for migrations  :

select start_time, end_time,start_time-end_time as Elapsed 
Time,entity,processes, cast(bytes/1024/1024/1024 as decimal(12,4)) as GB 
copied,((cast(bytes as decimal(18,0)) / cast((end_time -start_time)seconds as 
decimal(18,0/1048576 MB/second from summary where activity='MIGRATION' 
and cast((current_timestamp-end_time)minutes as decimal) 0  and cast((end_time 
-start_time)seconds as decimal) 0 and entity like upper('%$1%')
 

So far, my translation looks like this :

select start_time, end_time, hour(end_time-start_time)||':'|| 
minute(end_time-start_time)||':'|| second(end_time-start_time)as Time 
elapased,entity,processes,bytes,cast(bytes/1024/1024/1024 as decimal(12,4)) as 
GB copied,(cast(bytes as decimal(18,0))/timestampdiff(2,cast((end_time 
-start_time)as decimal(18,0)))/1048576) as MB/second from summary where 
activity='MIGRATION' and cast((current_timestamp-end_time) minutes as decimal) 
0 and timestampdiff(2,(end_time-start_time)) 0 and entity like upper('%$1%')

But it's far to be perfect : no double digits for time elapsed, and no way to 
get $1 in the middle of an expression ...

Pretty unsatisfying ...


Cheers.

Arnaud
  
 
  

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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David 
Bronder
Sent: jeudi 1 juillet 2010 00:32
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Syntax for SQL upper in TSM 6.2

PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:

 Like many others here, I'm fighting against the real DB2 world SQL
 syntax, and am totally unable to get a working equivalent of that query
 (simplified for demo purposes) :

 select * from summary where entity like upper(%'$1'%)

 Did anyone succeed in having such one working in  6.2 ?

I haven't moved to TSM 6.2 yet, but in 5.5 it needs to be upper('%$1%')
(the %s need to be inside the quotes)...

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Segmentation Fault ITS-SPA, Univ. of Iowa
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Re: Syntax for SQL upper in TSM 6.2

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi John,

It is not David that asked , but me !

My problem is not to only look for some value in a field, but for some value as 
PART of the field, so something like :

Upper(%'$1'%)

And this does not work :-(

Cheers.

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of John 
Stephens
Sent: jeudi 1 juillet 2010 14:31
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Syntax for SQL upper in TSM 6.2

David:
I am using select statements in 6.2 with the upper parameter with the following 
syntax

upper('$1')

Not clear on what you are needing but maybe this can help.


John Stephens
STORServer Consulting Engineer
www.storserver.com
Wk: 719-266-8777 ext 7201 
STORServer solves your data backup challenges.
Once and for all.

-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David 
Bronder
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 6:32 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Syntax for SQL upper in TSM 6.2

PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:

 Like many others here, I'm fighting against the real DB2 world SQL
 syntax, and am totally unable to get a working equivalent of that query
 (simplified for demo purposes) :

 select * from summary where entity like upper(%'$1'%)

 Did anyone succeed in having such one working in  6.2 ?

I haven't moved to TSM 6.2 yet, but in 5.5 it needs to be upper('%$1%')
(the %s need to be inside the quotes)...

--
Hello World.David Bronder - Systems Admin
Segmentation Fault ITS-SPA, Univ. of Iowa
Core dumped, disk trashed, quota filled, soda warm.   david-bron...@uiowa.edu

Syntax for SQL upper in TSM 6.2

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi gang,

Like many others here, I'm fighting against the real DB2 world SQL syntax, and 
am totally unable to get a working equivalent of that query (simplified for 
demo purposes) :

select * from summary where entity like upper(%'$1'%)

Did anyone succeed in having such one working in  6.2 ?

Thanks for your help !

Cheers.

Arnaud


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Re: External tape labels for 3592

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

David,

This utility may be of use for you :

http://tapelabels.librelogiciel.com/index.html 

Cheers.

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David 
E Ehresman
Sent: jeudi 4 mars 2010 16:14
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: External tape labels for 3592

Does anyone print their own external tape labels for 3592 cartridges?  I have a 
few damaged external labels I'm trying to figure out how to get new labels for.

David

Re: DSMADMC running from Target server?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Eric,

The -server option is just a pointer to a TSM stanza instance in your DSM.SYS 
configuration file.
It is there that you will have to provide the TCPSERVERADRESS for your target 
server  ...
Cheers.

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Eric 
Vaughn
Sent: lundi 1 février 2010 15:39
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: DSMADMC running from Target server?

Could someone tell me if I am using incorrect syntax. I am trying to run 
dsmadmc from my target server in order to query some volumes that may have 
potential problems.  I was getting the error ANS8019E before I added the (-) in 
front of id and password. After adding (-) I dont get an error, but it does not 
establish a connection with the correct server.  It establishes a connection 
with my source server.  I am using the following and running from the baclient 
directory.

dsmadmc -server=10.10.1.xxx -id=admin -password=admin

10.10.1.xxx is my target server. The command is being ran from this server as 
well.

My output establishes a connection with the source. Anyone have any thoughts or 
ideas as to what I could be doing wrong?

Eric Vaughn
Technical Administrator
Stevenson University
Office (443)334-2301
evau...@stevenson.edu

Re: delete volhistory

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Bruno,

TSM won't let you delete the last full DB backup existing, and therefore the 
incrementals made since then. 
Try to do a new full backup, end re-issue you command : this time it should 
work  !!

Cheers.

Arnaud 

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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Bruno 
Oliveira
Sent: vendredi 11 septembre 2009 15:48
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: delete volhistory

command 'q volhistory'

Date/Time : 04/09/09 9h0min15s BRT
Volume Type : BACKUPINCR
Backup Series : 1
Backup Operation : 1
Volume Seq : 1
Device Class : GENCLASS3
Volume Name : VXA001
Volume Location :
Command :
command 'delete volhistory type=all todate=09/04/2009'

ANR2467I DELETE VOLHISTORY: 0 sequential volume history entries were 
successfully deleted.

Why?

 Note: BRT in the date format is dd/mm/yy

--
abs,

Bruno Oliveira
Beagá - Minas Gerais - Brazil
55 31 9342 4111

Re: Backing up running VM's

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Buddy,

Thanks for your feedback !
The setup you've done should effectively not require additionnal licenses : I 
thought you where performing file-level virtual machine backups, which to my 
mind, should require one licence per virtual machine backed-up ...

Cheers.

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Buddy 
Howeth
Sent: mercredi 17 juin 2009 17:26
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Backing up running VM's

We had IBM come to our company to help with the setup.

We have 3 ESX 3.5 servers running linux that are our hosts for the VMs. We have 
one physical windows box which is the VCB (Virtual Consolidate Backup).  This 
machine has a TSM Windows client installed.  In the pre/post schedule section 
of the client we have commands that cause VMware to do the snapshots to the 
Drive D of the VCB.  When the snapshots are complete, TSM backs the VCB machine 
up including any snapshot on drive D.

I believe I may still have the white paper we received from IBM on the subject.

This does not violate any license issue with IBM.

Buddy Howeth
Computer Operations Specialist
Information Systems
Pacific Coast Producers
Corporate Offices
631 N. Cluff Ave
Lodi, CA  95240-0756
(209) 367-8800 - Main#
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Buddy,

Could you please elaborate, or provide some form of reference/proof for your 
assertion ?
This would be absolutely great news, but as far as I know, IBM is not a 
non-profit organization ;-)

Cheers.

Arnaud


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Buddy 
Howeth
Sent: mercredi 17 juin 2009 15:50
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Backing up running VM's

You don't need a license for each VM if you use a proxy.


Buddy Howeth
Computer Operations Specialist
Information Systems
Pacific Coast Producers
Corporate Offices
631 N. Cluff Ave
Lodi, CA  95240-0756
(209) 367-8800 - Main#
(209) 367-6288 - Computer Room
(209) 366-6240 - Alpha Pager





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Subject
Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up running VM's






Eric,

TSM does backup running VMs; for TSM versions prior to 5.5, you had to backup 
each individual VM just like you would backup physical servers (this meant 
getting a TSM license for each and every VM instance). TSM
V5.5 goes a step further and makes use of the VM Consolidated backup
(VCB) to accommodate the backup of VMs (it works well!!!); with the VCB, 
depending on your setup, the need for multiple licenses is greatly reduced as 
you make use of a proxy server to backup the VM.

Please refer to the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5.4  5.5 Technical Guide
- Chapter 24 for a detailed explanation of the VCB process  configuration.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG247447/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwh
elp.htm

Bertaut.

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Loon, 
EJ van - SPLXM
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:04 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up running VM's

Hi TSM-ers!
Our windows department is looking at different backup products for backing up 
their server.
They have two major problems with TSM. One I cannot solve: the TSM client 
license is processor based, so quite expensive for the majority of small 
servers. I think we all agree that the TSM client license should be capacity 
based, but IBM aint listening here...
The other problem is that they state TSM cannot backup running VM's.
They now use a product called DPM to make snapshot copies of running VM's.
I'm not really familiar with Window server management, especially when it comes 
to virtualization, but I know one thing: TSM is one of the leading, cutting 
edge backup

Re: Backing up running VM's

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Buddy,

Could you please elaborate, or provide some form of reference/proof for your 
assertion ?
This would be absolutely great news, but as far as I know, IBM is not a 
non-profit organization ;-)

Cheers.

Arnaud


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Buddy 
Howeth
Sent: mercredi 17 juin 2009 15:50
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Backing up running VM's

You don't need a license for each VM if you use a proxy.


Buddy Howeth
Computer Operations Specialist
Information Systems
Pacific Coast Producers
Corporate Offices
631 N. Cluff Ave
Lodi, CA  95240-0756
(209) 367-8800 - Main#
(209) 367-6288 - Computer Room
(209) 366-6240 - Alpha Pager





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Eric,

TSM does backup running VMs; for TSM versions prior to 5.5, you had to backup 
each individual VM just like you would backup physical servers (this meant 
getting a TSM license for each and every VM instance). TSM
V5.5 goes a step further and makes use of the VM Consolidated backup
(VCB) to accommodate the backup of VMs (it works well!!!); with the VCB, 
depending on your setup, the need for multiple licenses is greatly reduced as 
you make use of a proxy server to backup the VM.

Please refer to the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V5.4  5.5 Technical Guide - 
Chapter 24 for a detailed explanation of the VCB process  configuration.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG247447/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwh
elp.htm

Bertaut.

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EJ van - SPLXM
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:04 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up running VM's

Hi TSM-ers!
Our windows department is looking at different backup products for backing up 
their server.
They have two major problems with TSM. One I cannot solve: the TSM client 
license is processor based, so quite expensive for the majority of small 
servers. I think we all agree that the TSM client license should be capacity 
based, but IBM aint listening here...
The other problem is that they state TSM cannot backup running VM's.
They now use a product called DPM to make snapshot copies of running VM's.
I'm not really familiar with Window server management, especially when it comes 
to virtualization, but I know one thing: TSM is one of the leading, cutting 
edge backup products, so I doubt TSM is not supporting this feature.
Does anybody know whether it is possible to make snapshot backups with TSM of 
running VM's?
Thank you very much in advance for any reply!!!
Kind regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


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Re: TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

 and get satisfied with what they have bought

Martin,

This is exactly the point ! Are you satisfied with the ISC /AC combination so 
far ? If yes, I'm very happy for you, but
from my readings of this list, lots of users are not, and so am I.
I really would like to hear why IBM decided to drop a CPU and storage 
inexpensive / ergonomic /fast /readable interface for the new one.
I may be paranoid, but I believe they had a very good reason for such a change 
: selling more hardware !

Cheers.

Arnaud


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Sabar 
Martin Hasiholan Panggabean
Sent: jeudi 4 juin 2009 18:06
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

Hi Grigori and Arnaud,

For someone that has been using TSM from version 5.2 or familiar with TSM we 
can say that  How about to convince new customers that the old thing 
better that the new one. They prefer use things new (up-to-date) and get 
satisfied with what they have bought.

BR,

Martin

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Grigori Solonovitch
Sent: 04 Juni 2009 15:58
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

I agreed completely with that ..  I have tried to use ISC a few times 
with no success.
I was using TSM WEB Interface 5.2, which was announced by IBM as a temporary 
solution for TSM 5.3, with TSM 5.4 and TSM 5.5 successfully. I addition, I am 
using command line interface dsmadmc.
I wonder, is there any possibility to install TSM WEB Interface 5.2 with TSM 
6.1 or not?


Grigori G. Solonovitch

Senior Technical Architect

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Brion Arnaud
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 11:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

 Just wondering if this ISC is as just powerful as previous TSM Web
Admin.

Surely not, just a waste of time, disk space and energy. I'm still wondering 
who uses that ... thing.

Cheers.

Arnaud



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Martin Hasiholan Panggabean
Sent: jeudi 4 juin 2009 10:39
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Subject: Re: TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

Well .. I'm definetly fine with command line. Just wondering if this ISC is as 
just powerful as previous TSM Web Admin.

BR,

Martin

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Sent: 04 Juni 2009 15:20
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

On 4 jun 2009, at 09:10, Sabar Martin Hasiholan Panggabean wrote:

 Hi All,

 Does IBM has documentation on administering TSM using Integrated
 Solution Console ? Never thought before until I can't find how to add
 Storage Agent. Usually I'm using previous TSM Web Administration.


Wasn't the only use of the ISC to provide us with a command-line when all other 
options fail? I wouldn't be surprised if you need to use the cli to register 
storage agents.


 BR,

 Martin

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Re: TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

 Just wondering if this ISC is as just powerful as previous TSM Web
Admin.

Surely not, just a waste of time, disk space and energy. I'm still
wondering who uses that ... thing.

Cheers.

Arnaud 



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Sabar Martin Hasiholan Panggabean
Sent: jeudi 4 juin 2009 10:39
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

Well .. I'm definetly fine with command line. Just wondering if this ISC
is as just powerful as previous TSM Web Admin.

BR,

Martin

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of
Remco Post
Sent: 04 Juni 2009 15:20
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Administration Guide Using ISC

On 4 jun 2009, at 09:10, Sabar Martin Hasiholan Panggabean wrote:

 Hi All,

 Does IBM has documentation on administering TSM using Integrated 
 Solution Console ? Never thought before until I can't find how to add 
 Storage Agent. Usually I'm using previous TSM Web Administration.


Wasn't the only use of the ISC to provide us with a command-line when
all other options fail? I wouldn't be surprised if you need to use the
cli to register storage agents.


 BR,

 Martin

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Re: TSM for Oracle

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

David,

I suggest you to use the hidden show version command on your server, that 
will allow to list the contents of backed up data on the server. 
Just issue : show version   nametype=fsid with =node_name and 
=filespace_FSID
This is my favorite method !
Cheers.

Arnaud


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E Ehresman
Sent: jeudi 4 juin 2009 16:10
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM for Oracle

I understand that rman CAN automatically delete old backups.  As a TSM Admin, I 
am being asked to verify that rman IS deleting old backups.  Is there any way 
to verify such from the TSM side?

David

 Grigori Solonovitch g.solonovi...@bkme.com 6/4/2009 1:42 AM 
I am using RMAN 9i/10g with TSM 5.5 successfully.
RMAN manages data expiry for Oracle databases completely without any manual 
intervention, but some configuration efforts are required:
1) dedicated TSM node for Oracle data with management class and copy group;
2)  set vere=no limit, verd=0 rete=N ret=0 in copy group, where N is a 
period of time in days to be able to recover database (I am using 31 day);
3) for each database set retention period in RMAN by CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY 
TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF N DAYS, where N equal to N in copy group;
4) run full database backup periodically. I am running full database backup 
twice per month with retention period 31 days. All other days run incremental 
backup for database;
5) perform  delete noprompt obsolete from RMAN backup script;
6) schedule at proper time crosscheck backup + delete noprompt expired 
backup + delete noprompt obsolete daily for each database (just not to delay 
backups);
7) schedule crosscheck archivelog all + delete noprompt expired archivelog 
all daily for each database (just not to delay backups)

Grigori G. Solonovitch

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Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 8:59 PM
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Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for Oracle

Do can a TSM Admin verify that the rman clients are deleting their old TSM for 
Oracle backups?

David

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Re: Summary in TSM

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Kiran,

You should use SET SUMMARYRETENTION to increase the retention period.

Cheers.

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Subject: Summary in TSM

Hi,



I am able to get information for only 30 days from the below command
.how to increase the days of information we need to get.





Select * from summary





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Re: DBB not expiring

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Joni,

Could it be that you have some script issuing a command like delete
volhist todate=today-X type=dbbackup, having X  20 (actual DRM setting
for DB backup expiration days) ?
If yes, then the volumes are left orphaned in DRM, and thus never
expiring, IIRC.

Cheers

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Moyer, Joni M
Sent: mardi 10 mars 2009 19:46
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: DBB not expiring

Hi!

I have a new TSM server on an AIX 5.3 server at 5.5.1.1 and the database
backups are not expiring.  What should I double check to make sure that
this does occur?

I do have the following set up for DRM:

Recovery Plan Prefix: /t01/dr/recoveryplans/
  Plan Instructions Prefix: /t01/dr/instructions/
Replacement Volume Postfix: @
 Primary Storage Pools: NAS_TOC NAS_TOC_5YR NAS_TOC_7YR
TAPE_NDMP
 TAPE_NDMP_5YR TAPE_NDMP_7YR
Copy Storage Pools: COPY_NDMP
   Not Mountable Location Name: NOTMOUNTABLE
  Courier Name: Vital Records Inc
   Vault Site Name: Vital Records Inc
  DB Backup Series Expiration Days: 20 Day(s)

Thanks in advance!

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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Announce online generator for LTO barcode labels

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Lisa,

It is there : http://tapelabels.librelogiciel.com/index.html 

Cheers.

Arnaud


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Lisa
Sent: jeudi 12 février 2009 18:06
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Announce online generator for LTO barcode labels

I have an old url for the generator. Would you please send me the new location. 
I would like to test it in my shop.

Respectfully,
Lisa Seay
850/487- ext. 2059


  
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Alet
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:45 AM
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Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] [OFFTOPIC] Announce online generator for LTO barcode 
labels

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 07:40:50PM -0500, daniel996 wrote:


 As I am in Australia, we can't get any of the pre-sized labels your  
 utility is setup for (we can only get A4 sized media, not US).

 I bought Avery codde J4776, which is a single A4 heavy duty label 
 sheet and I used a guillotine to cut the labels to size.

I don't have the exact reference of the labels we used, but we were in a 
similar situation.

I've recently upgraded this generator to allow people to input a positive or 
negative offset on the X and Y axis, to workaround the fact that not all 
printers are created equal : special marks are now included in the bottom left 
with their expected size printed, so you just have to print one sheet (not 
necessarily real labels, a normal blank sheet is OK provided it's in the Letter 
format, the format used by all supported templates), then measure between the 
left (or bottom) of the page and the mark, and adjust the offsets accordingly 
in the web form.

hth

Jerome Alet

Re: error ANS5280E ... Please help

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Robert,

This is a known problem who has a simple solution : regedit.
Just point to the key
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup,
then double click on DRM to open the key, and immediately close it (no
modification needed) !
Your problem is now solved ...

Cheers.

Arnaud


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Robert Ouzen Ouzen
Sent: mercredi 21 janvier 2009 13:27
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: error ANS5280E ... Please help

Hi to all

 

I have a new issue now baking the systemstate with the error ANS5280E
enumeration from a file set or file listed failed ?

 

My TSM client is 5.5.1.10 on a Windows 2003 SP2 system.

 

I search the web for the error ANS5280E and found a paper with
instructions as:

 

HOW TO REPAIR THE REGISTRY KEY - METHOD 2 This method uses the reg.exe
utility from a Windows OS command prompt.

1. Confirm the invalid DRM data value by running the following command:

reg query
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup /v
DRM


Note: This is one long command even though it might appear in this
article on multiple lines.

The output look will look something like this:

! REG.EXE VERSION 3.0

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesN
otToBackup
DRM REG_MULTI_SZ C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\* /s\0


The important part is the very last line. Breaking it into 3 parts:

*   DRM is the registry value, and should appear as shown above.

*   REG_MULTI_SZ is the value type. This should also be exactly as
shown above.

*   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\* /s\0 is the
interesting part. If it ends with /s\0\0, then it is unaffected (in
which case ANS1009W would not be expected). However, if it ends with
/s\0 as shown above, then it is subject to the ANS1009W message.


2. Use reg.exe to repair the value:

reg add
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup /v
DRM /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\* /s /f


Note: This is one long command.

Do not put the \0\0 part in the command. When the value is placed in the
registry, it will automatically be terminated properly.

After running the above command, you can repeat step 1. to confirm that
the data is correct. The data value should now end with /s\0\0

I did on my server but when I run a query I got it without any 0  at all
!!

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\BackupRestore\FilesN
otToBackup
DRM REG_MULTI_SZ C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\DRM\* /s

I check in an another server with the same configuration , TSM client
5.5.1.10 windows 2003 SP2 who the systemstate is working fine. There too
when I run the query I got without the 0

Can anybody suggest what I can do to fix this error ANS5280E

T.I.A Advance

Robert

 

 

 

Thanks for any replies!

 

Rob

Re: Anybody test Servergraph ..

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi,

Never tested Servergraph, so I could not say if it's a good product ... The 
only reason why we never even tried it was it's price !
If your customer is looking for a cheaper piece of software to monitor his TSM 
server, I encourage you to have a look at TSMManager, which may look a little 
bit more rough but provides lots of information (trends of all sorts, backup 
reporting ...) and features (DRM and backupsets management, mail or HTTP 
reporting), all worth the value !

Cheers

Arnaud


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Subject: Anybody test Servergraph ..

Hi,



Anybody has ever test Servergraph. I wish to test this Servergraph but than.
so terrible in getting the trail version.

I wish to test this product before recommend to customer. By the way, I am 
freelancer doing TSM Installation  TSM Support to several customer.  They want 
to know who is your customer, do they have money to pay .and yet never tell you 
how much is their product.



Is this product really good ?



Tq

file sequencing during export to server ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi all,

Quick question about export node operation (TSM server 5.4.3.0) : if an
export to server is performed for a node, specifying filedata=all and
targetting only one client filespace, in which order will the data be
exported ? 

From my (so far limited) experience it seems that the oldest files are
exported first, but I wanted to make this 100 % sure, as when I use
show version command on the receiving server during the import, I
sometimes see older files skipped and exported later than the newer
ones.

What is the rule that defines file sequencing during export, if any ?
Does an additional  fromdate statement modify that rule ?

Thanks in adavnce !

Cheers.

Arnaud



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Re: TSM Cluster Scheduler Question

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Farren,


You may be affected by a faulty configuration, where the password in MS
cluster's checkpoint file is not synchronized with the local registry
password anymore, thus making the service fail ... It happened several
times in our shop already !
IBM noticed the problem, and published a solution here  :
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243061

May be of interest for you !

Cheers.

Arnaud  



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
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Sent: mardi 1 juillet 2008 11:58
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: TSM Cluster Scheduler Question

Hi,

First, de-select affect group  in the cluster resource properties for
the TSM Cluster Scheduler in cluster administrator, cluadmin.exe.
This prevents the whole cluster to failover when the TSM service stops
due to whatever.. ex. bad password.

Verify that the correct registry parameter is replicated as a part of
the cluster resource:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBM\ADSM\CurrentVersion\Nodes\
nodename\TSM server instance name 

Consider to set passexp=0 on the TSM server for the Exchange node.

Update PW on both cluster nodes.

what does the Cluster Scheduler actually do?
Backing up Exchange? :-) You will find the answer if you search on the
nodename and schedule in TSM.


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Sent: den 1 juli 2008 11:31
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM Cluster Scheduler Question

Hi All

TSM 5.4.1.2 on Solaris 2.9
Backing up Exchange (MS Windows Server 2003, RC2 SP) - 5.5.0.0 in a
clustered environment.

We had this set up by an outside company and are now seeing some
problems with the TSM Cluster Scheduler automatically failing over the
cluster due to a password issue (this is as far as I can see anyway).

So, the dumb question, what does the Cluster Scheduler actually do?
I can see there is a separate schedule for the Exchange TDP backups.

Thanks

Farren






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Re: ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Anil,

I fully agree with you that a TSM server acting as a library manager
would have been much easier to implement and maintain, unfortunately
legal and security issues are refraining us to do so ! (plus the fact
that we also plan to dedicate a future partition of the library to some
non-TSM application)

Thanks anyway for your help ...

Cheers

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Subject: Re: ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library

I would recommend use only one library manager. This simplifies lots of
headache in future. I am having one 3584 tape library with 18 LTO2 and 6
LTO4 under same library manager and it works like charm.
One library manager means one volume history which is lot easier to
maintain.
Good luck

 

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PAC Brion Arnaud
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:54 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library

Hi All,

A probably trivial question, but I'm unable to find necessary
information in the books ...

Our TSM setup is actually made of a TS3500 library equipped with 15 LT03
drives and an expansion frame, the whole being shared between 2 TSM
servers, thru the mean of standard library sharing (contiguous drive
and slots for each logical library).

So far, our logical libraries are looking  like:

- 1st partition : 7 tape drives (frame 1 row 1-7)  and  slots 1025 -1375
- 2nd partition : 8 tape drives (frame 1 rows 8-12, frame 2 rows 1-3)
and slots 1376-1707

Note that the 3 last drives (frame 2 rows 1-3) where recently added, and
are so far not used by any TSM server ...

What we intend to do is to activate ALMS to create a 3rd partition which
should be made of 3 drives (the 3 ones which are still not attributed) +
approx. 50 tape slots, and to use that one for a new TSM server.

My questions are  : 

- what are the possible issues (if any) that I could face after having
activated ALMS and created the 3rd partition ? 
- Is there any chance that our productive TSM servers could loose track
of the already in use volumes, or of their drives ? 
- Will my actual partitioning still exist after ALMS activation ...

Well, in some words : what shall I care about, before activating ALMS on
an already partitioned and productive library ?

Hopefully someone already went thru this and will give me some hints !

Thanks in advance ...

Cheers.

Arnaud


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Re: ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Pierre,

Many thanks for your valuable help : I tried to open a call by IBM Switzerland 
and they could not provide me half of the information you gave me ... Seems 
that this kind of operation is not that usual here ! 

Regarding what you asked in point 1 : yes, no other way to do, as the library 
has to be completely isolated from any other TSM server, but also because it 
will be used for non-TSM applications ...

Yet, another question if you don't mind : If I keep the same drives layout in 
the new logical libraries, than the one previously defined for the partitioned 
library, will it be necessary to redefine the existing drives paths on TSM 
servers ? I don't think so, as the real drive ID's are anyway hidden by the 
library, but I just wanted to make this sure ...

Apart from this, your explanations are crystal clear and will be of much help : 
thanks again !

Best regards.

A. Brion 


P.S : yes I do speak French : I'm one of the happy few french guys crossing the 
Swiss border on a daily basis to go to work ;-)

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CAYE PIERRE
Sent: jeudi 12 juin 2008 17:44
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library

 Hi,

Do you speak french ?

May I make some suggestion...

I work with a huge library, TS3500, with 7 virtual libraries (ALMS) defined...

1. Do you really need to partition the library ?
A library manager is a good and scalable solution...

2. Traditionnal partitioning (ie physical partitioning) and ALMS (virtual 
libraries) are exclusive solution.
You can't mixt the two solutions.
I mean, if you activate ALMS, you should loose all physical partitioning

Activating ALMS mean a complete change of strategy regarding how you use your 
3584

To activate ALMS, which is a very nice virtual libraries solution... :-)

A) note all tape label for each actual partition
B) activate ALMS
B.1) create two virtual library, corresponding to the old partitions
allocate drives to each library
connect and define all tape on server side
B.2) allocate each tape to each corresponding virtual library
B.3) launch audit libr on each tsm server
C) create the third virtual library
D) Enjoy it

You will find all informations on IBM Infocenter : 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ts3500tl/v1r0/index.jsp

Pierre

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 De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part 
 de PAC Brion Arnaud Envoyé : jeudi 12 juin 2008 15:54 À : 
 ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : [ADSM-L] ALMS activation on productive 
 shared TS3500 library
 
 Hi All,
 
 A probably trivial question, but I'm unable to find necessary 
 information in the books ...
 
 Our TSM setup is actually made of a TS3500 library equipped with 15 
 LT03 drives and an expansion frame, the whole being shared between 2 
 TSM servers, thru the mean of standard
 library sharing (contiguous drive and slots for each logical library).
 
 So far, our logical libraries are looking  like:
 
 - 1st partition : 7 tape drives (frame 1 row 1-7)  and  slots
 1025 -1375
 - 2nd partition : 8 tape drives (frame 1 rows 8-12, frame 2 rows 1-3) 
 and slots 1376-1707
 
 Note that the 3 last drives (frame 2 rows 1-3) where recently added, 
 and are so far not used by any TSM server ...
 
 What we intend to do is to activate ALMS to create a 3rd partition 
 which should be made of 3 drives (the 3 ones which are still not 
 attributed) + approx. 50 tape slots, and to use that one for a new TSM 
 server.
 
 My questions are  : 
 
 - what are the possible issues (if any) that I could face after having 
 activated ALMS and created the 3rd partition ?
 - Is there any chance that our productive TSM servers could loose 
 track of the already in use volumes, or of their drives ?
 - Will my actual partitioning still exist after ALMS activation ...
 
 Well, in some words : what shall I care about, before activating ALMS 
 on an already partitioned and productive library ?
 
 Hopefully someone already went thru this and will give me some hints !
 
 Thanks in advance ...
 
 Cheers.
 
 Arnaud
 
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Re: ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Joseph,

Here too, many thanks for the hints.

But I'm lost now, as both Pierre and yourself are giving me conflictual 
opinions on how ALMS will affect the already existing partitions in my library 
... On one hand I'm supposed to loose all of the existing setup, and on the 
other one everything should be preserved ...
Is your advice the reflect of IBM's official position ?

Whatever your answer will be, I would be glad to get your PPT document. Could 
you please send directly to the address noted below ?

Thanks in advance !

Best regards.

Arnaud   


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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josef 
Weingand
Sent: vendredi 13 juin 2008 11:13
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library

Hello,
if you activate ALMS, then the already defined logical libraries will be 
preserved with all information and setups, like size, drives, cartridges ...
How ever you should stop the activities on our TSM Server regarding libraries.
After activation, which may take 1-3 min per Frame, you should:
-check the logical libraries with the WebGUI -check if the cartridges 
assigned to the logical libries, this may take a while (after the automatic 
inventory) -if where the cartridges not assigned, then you need to assign the 
cart manually with the WegGUI (this should be normaly not necessary,  but it 
happens once to me)
- run an audit lib

Thats all.

After that you can change the library setup with ALMS capabilities.

I have a ppt which explains ALMS and TS3500 WebGUI, but it is about 8 MB, if 
someone interested pls pop me email 

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
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From:
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To:
ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date:
12.06.2008 17:49
Subject:
Re: [ADSM-L] ALMS activation on productive shared  TS3500 library



 Hi,

Do you speak french ?

May I make some suggestion...

I work with a huge library, TS3500, with 7 virtual libraries (ALMS) defined...

1. Do you really need to partition the library ?
 A library manager is a good and scalable solution...

2. Traditionnal partitioning (ie physical partitioning) and ALMS (virtual
libraries) are exclusive solution.
 You can't mixt the two solutions.
 I mean, if you activate ALMS, you should loose all physical 
partitioning

Activating ALMS mean a complete change of strategy regarding how you use your 
3584

To activate ALMS, which is a very nice virtual libraries solution... :-)

A) note all tape label for each actual partition
B) activate ALMS
B.1) create two virtual library, corresponding to the old partitions
 allocate drives to each library
 connect and define all tape on server side
B.2) allocate each tape to each corresponding virtual library
B.3) launch audit libr on each tsm server
C) create the third virtual library
D) Enjoy it

You will find all informations on IBM Infocenter : 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ts3500tl/v1r0/index.jsp

Pierre

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 De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part 
 de PAC Brion Arnaud Envoyé : jeudi 12 juin 2008 15:54 À : 
 ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Objet : [ADSM-L] ALMS activation on productive 
 shared TS3500 library
 
 Hi All,
 
 A probably trivial question, but I'm unable to find necessary 
 information in the books ...
 
 Our TSM setup is actually made of a TS3500 library equipped with 15 
 LT03 drives and an expansion frame, the whole being shared between 2 
 TSM servers, thru the mean of standard
 library sharing (contiguous drive and slots for each logical library).
 
 So far, our logical libraries are looking  like:
 
 - 1st partition : 7 tape drives (frame 1 row 1-7)  and  slots
 1025 -1375
 - 2nd partition : 8 tape drives (frame 1 rows 8-12, frame 2 rows 1-3) 
 and slots 1376-1707
 
 Note that the 3 last drives (frame 2 rows 1-3) where recently added, 
 and are so far not used by any TSM server ...
 
 What we intend to do is to activate ALMS to create a 3rd partition 
 which should be made of 3 drives (the 3 ones which

ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi All,

A probably trivial question, but I'm unable to find necessary
information in the books ...

Our TSM setup is actually made of a TS3500 library equipped with 15 LT03
drives and an expansion frame, the whole being shared between 2 TSM
servers, thru the mean of standard library sharing (contiguous drive
and slots for each logical library).

So far, our logical libraries are looking  like:

- 1st partition : 7 tape drives (frame 1 row 1-7)  and  slots 1025 -1375
- 2nd partition : 8 tape drives (frame 1 rows 8-12, frame 2 rows 1-3)
and slots 1376-1707

Note that the 3 last drives (frame 2 rows 1-3) where recently added, and
are so far not used by any TSM server ...

What we intend to do is to activate ALMS to create a 3rd partition which
should be made of 3 drives (the 3 ones which are still not attributed) +
approx. 50 tape slots, and to use that one for a new TSM server.

My questions are  : 

- what are the possible issues (if any) that I could face after having
activated ALMS and created the 3rd partition ? 
- Is there any chance that our productive TSM servers could loose track
of the already in use volumes, or of their drives ? 
- Will my actual partitioning still exist after ALMS activation ...

Well, in some words : what shall I care about, before activating ALMS on
an already partitioned and productive library ?

Hopefully someone already went thru this and will give me some hints !

Thanks in advance ...

Cheers.

Arnaud


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Re: Offsite copies for NDMP - how to do ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Remco,

Thanks for answering !

I however found a third way (using TSM 5.4) : define a copy storage
pool, using the same device class that the one which is used for NDMP
backups and having the same Storage Pool Data Format (EMC Celerra Dump
in my case) as the corresponding primary pool.
Providing the your NAS appliance has at least access to 2 of the tape
drives in your library, the backup stgpool command works like a charm !
This has the advantage that your NDMP copypool will be handled by DRM
like any other copypool :-)

If only IBM could edit trustable/understandable manuals ... Would avoid
lots of headaches and time lost !

Thanks anyway for your tips, which could be of use in other situations
...

Cheers.

Arnaud



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Remco Post
Sent: Thursday, 21 February, 2008 11:04
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Offsite copies for NDMP - how to do ?

PAC Brion Arnaud wrote:
 Hi List,

 I read in the TSM 5.4 admin guide that TSM was now able to generate 
 offsite copies of NDMP backups and to handle them thru DRM.
 I just implemented some NDMP test setup, but am absolutely unable to 
 get an offsite copy generated using the move data method described 
 in the guide.
 Could someone enlighten me on that topic, as I absolutely need to have

 such a setup working : without offsite copies NDMP is useless ...


You have two options:

1- have an off-site library where you write your ndmp copies
2- starting TSM v5.4 you can do NDMP via IP to a normal storage
hierarchy

 Thanks in advance !

 Cheers.

 Arnaud
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Re: Offsite copies for NDMP - how to do ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Thanks to all the ones that answered !

And for Richard : I only looked in the 5.5 Administrator's guide, which
is supposed to be the TSM admins bible, and on topic NDMP, chapter 7,
the only thing that I found regarding backing up NDMP data was this :

***
Step 11. Tape-to-Tape Copy to Back Up Data

 When using NDMP tape-to-tape function to back up data, the library type
can be SCSI, 349X, or ACSLS. Drives can be shared between the NAS
devices and the Tivoli Storage Manager server. Note: When using the NDMP
tape-to-tape copy function, your configuration setup could affect the
performance of the Tivoli Storage Manager back end data movement.For
example, to have one NAS device with paths to four drives in a library,
use the MOVE DATA command after you are done with your configuration
setup. This moves data on the volume VOL1 to any available volumes in
the same storage pool as VOL1: 
move data vol1   
***

So, sorry, but I find such an explanation rather unclear, or even
misleading ! :-)

Cheers.

Arnaud


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Sent: Thursday, 21 February, 2008 18:11
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Fw: Offsite copies for NDMP - how to do ?


 Yes - that's why I recommended that others pursue that avenue.
 The most recent Technical Guide is at the top of the results...which 
 you then click to and acquire a copy of the guide.

 I cite methods for going at documents, rather than detailed URLs, for 
 several reasons...  First and foremost, URL elements internal to site 
 locations can be highly volatile, and change over time.  Keep in mind 
 that our postings are archived, and a detailed URL could well be 
 useless to someone doing TSM problem research a month from now.
 Prescribing the most reliable method to get to the info, here and 
 later, is the most generally useful.  My second reason, beyond showing

 methodology, is to expose contextual documentation beyond the single 
 objective, for general awareness of the availability of such 
 information as it aids better understanding of a complex product.  In 
 this case, for example, one who hasn't looked much at the Redbooks 
 will realize that the Technical Guide has been produced for numerous 
 versions and releases of ADSM and TSM, where each provides a unique 
 understanding of then-introduced features which carry forth through 
 the most current incarnations of TSM.

 Richard Sims

Well stated Richard.  It's the old Give a man a fish... teach a man to
fish... parable.  Practicing finding documentation (for any product or
vendor) when things aren't falling apart makes it much easier to find
the documentation when things are.

On the left side of the http://www.redbooks.ibm.com page, toward the
bottom of the button stack, is one titled Mailing List.  Each Monday
(usually) you'll get an email detailing the new redbooks, drafts,
redpieces, and notices of residencies and workshops.


Nick Cassimatis

Offsite copies for NDMP - how to do ?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi List,

I read in the TSM 5.4 admin guide that TSM was now able to generate
offsite copies of NDMP backups and to handle them thru DRM.
I just implemented some NDMP test setup, but am absolutely unable to get
an offsite copy generated using the move data method described in the
guide.
Could someone enlighten me on that topic, as I absolutely need to have
such a setup working : without offsite copies NDMP is useless ...

Thanks in advance !

Cheers.

Arnaud 

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Re: Mig stg question.

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Andrew,

Here, a snippet of the administrative command line online help h mig
stg :


This command creates one or more migration processes that can be
canceled

with the CANCEL PROCESS command. The number of processes is limited by
the

MIGPROCESS attribute of the storage pool definition. To display
information

on background processes, use the QUERY PROCESS command.


Your instructor should read his books again ...

Cheers

 
Arnaud



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Meadows Andrew
Sent: Tuesday, 27 November, 2007 21:01
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Mig stg question.

Hello list. 

Environment . 
TSM 5.3.4.1 running on AIX. 

I have a question about the mig stg command versus the hi/lo parameter
on a Disk Storage pool for migration purposes. 

I was recently in a TSM class and the instructor informed me that the
mig stg command runs single threaded as compared to the upd stg command
which will run multiple threads. 

Here is the theoretical situation I gave him. 

You have a disk pool. That is 10 GB. This disk pool has the Migration
Processes parameter set to 2. 
Theoretically this disk is 50 % full with data from 2 nodes. And tyou
have the tape drives available for migration to the Next Storage Pool to
tape. 

Scenario 1. 

You issue the mig stg diskpool lo=0. 
This will kick off 2 processes 1 per node 
According to the instructor this is running on a single thread and
moving the data at a slow rate. 

Scenario 2

You issue the upd stg diskpool hi=0 lo=0 This will kick off 2 processes
 1 per node.
According to the instructor this is running one thread per process and
moving the data in paralell. 

Has anyone seen this, or heard this? We are currently using the mig stg
command and I wonder if we could be doing this more efficiently. 

Thanks,


Andrew Meadows
Storage Services Operations
Enterprise Storage Services
HCA Information Technology  Services

Re: I would like to scratch a copypool volume with no data on it

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

 I can't update libv, because the volume is not in the library, rather
offsite. I can't do the same for audit volume.

Try : update vol acc=reado 
Before starting the volume's audit.
Always worked at my shop ...

Cheers 

Arnaud



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Kamran Rao
Sent: Wednesday, 10 October, 2007 17:37
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: I would like to scratch a copypool volume with no data on
it

I can't update libv, because the volume is not in the library, rather
offsite. I can't do the same for audit volume.

Anyone any other options. 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
LeBlanc, Patricia
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 7:48 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] I would like to scratch a copypool volume with no
data on it

Update libv libname volumename status=scratch 

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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Kamran Rao
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 3:56 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] I would like to scratch a copypool volume with no data
on it

Hello TSM's,

 

I have a copypool volume with nothing on it, meaning q content - no
data. When I try to #delete volume xxx discarddata=yes - it returns
- volume contains data. When I use move data - it returns - volume
contains no data. DRM says it is in vault status.

 

I would like to make this volume as scratch and put it back into the
scratch pool. Any suggestions? 

 

Regards,

 

Kamran H. Rao

Re: Full Backup Size Report

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi !

Here's a couple of shell scripts that you could possibly use to achieve
your goal, without much stress ...

1)sizing.sh

dsmadmc -id=admin -pass=password -datao=yes -tab  select \'export node
\', node_name, \'filespace=\',filespace_name, \'preview=yes
filedata=allactive\' from filespaces where filespace_type not like
\'API%\'  /tmp/toto
#
tr -s '\t' ' ' toto toto1
sed s/= /=/ toto1  toto
#
cd  /tmp
CMD=dsmadmc -id=admin -password=password
cat toto | while read input
do $CMD $input
done 

2)sizing2.sh

dsmadmc -id=admin -pass=password -datao=yes -tab q act begind=01/14/2005
begint=12:18 s=\export node running\ active_data 



Note1 : you could possibly modify the select statement in 1st script to
make it match your needs (in my example TDP data is excluded ...)
Note2 : take care, you're going to start MANY export processes
parallely, if having lots of filespaces/nodes : here again you can
modify the select statement to reduce the scope of it (per domain, mode
name, whatever ...)

You should first launch sizing.sh, and note the day and time where you
started it. 
When all of the export processes will be completed, modify the begind
and begint variables in sizing2.sh script so that they reflect your
start date and time for the first script, and let it run ...  The output
file active_data will give you all what you need ! 

Probably not the most elegant solution, but it works !

Cheers

Arnaud 


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Sent: Friday, 07 September, 2007 00:29
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Full Backup Size Report

Thanks again to all - the export node nodename filedata=backupactive
preview-yes works, but I would love to get this into a SQL statement or
something so I dont have to look at the console or actlog to retrieve
the output.

I have been trying for a few hours to get this going but have never
really written a SQL code before, so needless to say I am not doing very
well.

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Re: ANS2050E message

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Rick,

In such a case, it will be necessary to initialize the password
manually, using command line interface : you will be prompted to enter
the new password at first attempt to connect to TSM server. (You may
first have to set a new password on TSM server for this node, as the
existing one has been machine-generated and there's no way to read it).

However this is only a temporary workaround, and you'll face the very
same problem next time a new password will be generated.

To my knowledge, the only way to keep the passwords syncronized in such
an environment would be to use the TSM scheduler service ...
  
HTH, just my 2 cents  !

Arnaud 


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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Rick Harderwijk
Sent: Monday, 27 August, 2007 09:46
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: ANS2050E message

Hi,

I just started at a new company and for the moment they are still
running TSM. One of the clients on Windows 2000 Server SP4 (5.3.4.0) did
not backup last night; the message I got in the errorlog was '08/27/2007
08:04:53 ANS2050E TSM needs to prompt for the password but cannot prompt
because the process is running in the background.'.

I checked the dsm.opt and confirmed that the option PASSWORDACCESS
GENERATE is set. I suspect that the problem stems from the fact that the
backup is started through a batchfile using the Windows Task Scheduler
instead of through the TSM Scheduler service (which is not installed)
for some reason not yet known to me. Am I correct in my observation and
is there any workaround - as this problem will most likely come back as
soon as the password expires again.

Cheers,

Rick Harderwijk

Re: Backup STG Problem?

[PAC Brion Arnaud]

Hi Christian,

Something strange in your output : why does TSM wait for a mount point having 
devclass LTOCLASS, if you have defined different devclasse for your primary 
(LTO2CLASS) and copy pools (LTO3CLASS) ?

Cheers.

  
Arnaud 

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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian 
Svensson
Sent: Thursday, 23 August, 2007 11:23
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Backup STG Problem?

Hi Everyone,

I hope all of you hade a great vacation during the summer.

But I have a funny problem with my TSM Server.

My TSM Server is 5.4.0.3 based on Windows Server 2003 and an IBM 3584 Library.

In the library I have 4 x LTO2 drives and 1 x LTO3 drive.

Hopefully next week will I have 2 x LTO3 and sometimes under next year only 
LTO3.

My Primary pool use Device Class LTO2Class that is a Device Class assigned only 
to LTO2 drives.

My Copy Pool use Device Class LTO3Class that is a Device Class assigned only to 
LTO3 drives.

 

When I do a Backup STG from Diskpool to Copypool everything works fine and it 
only use LTO3 tapes.

When I migrate from Diskpool to Tapepool everything works fine also and it only 
use LTO2 tapes.

But when I want to do a Backup STG from Tapepool to Copypool it hangs and 
waiting to load my LTO2 tapes.

I look in the Activity logs for any reason why it waiting for that tape but 
can't see any errors.

 

FROM PROCESSES:

  13 MigrationDisk Storage Pool DISKPOOL, Moved Files: 143250,

   Moved Bytes: 917,541,339,136, Unreadable Files:

   0, Unreadable Bytes: 0. Current Physical File

   (bytes): 2,471,415,808 Current output volume:

   000875L2.

  26 Backup Storage Pool  Primary Pool 3584POOL, Copy Pool COPYPOOL, Files

   Backed Up: 0, Bytes Backed Up: 0, Unreadable

   Files: 0, Unreadable Bytes: 0. Current Physical

   File (bytes): 16,953,972 Waiting for mount point

   in device class LTOCLASS (106 seconds).

FROM ACTLOG:

08/23/2007 11:15:32  ANR2017I Administrator CHRISS issued command: BACKUP

  STGPOOL 3584pool copypool  (SESSION: 2850)

08/23/2007 11:15:32  ANR0984I Process 26 for BACKUP STORAGE POOL started in the

  BACKGROUND at 11:15:32. (SESSION: 2850, PROCESS: 26)

08/23/2007 11:15:32  ANR2110I BACKUP STGPOOL started as process 26. (SESSION:

  2850, PROCESS: 26)

08/23/2007 11:15:32  ANR1210I Backup of primary storage pool 3584POOL to copy

  storage pool COPYPOOL started as process 26. (SESSION:

  2850, PROCESS: 26)

08/23/2007 11:15:32  ANR1228I Removable volume 000818L2 is required for storage

  pool backup. (SESSION: 2850, PROCESS: 26)

 

FROM Q MOUNT

tsm: BACKUP-TSM1q Mo

ANR8330I LTO volume 000875L2 is mounted R/W in drive LTO2D1 (mt1.0.0.3),

status: IN USE.

ANR8334I 1 matches found.

 

FROM Q Volume

 

   Volume Name: 000818L2

 Storage Pool Name: 3584POOL

 Device Class Name: LTOCLASS

Estimated Capacity: 189,630.2

   Scaled Capacity Applied:

  Pct Util: 100.0

 Volume Status: Full

Access: Read/Write

Pct. Reclaimable Space: 0.0

   Scratch Volume?: Yes

   In Error State?: No

  Number of Writable Sides: 1

   Number of Times Mounted: 2

 Write Pass Number: 1

 Approx. Date Last Written: 08/19/2007 05:47:57

Approx. Date Last Read: 08/22/2007 22:55:04

   Date Became Pending:

Number of Write Errors: 0

 Number of Read Errors: 0

   Volume Location:

Volume is MVS Lanfree Capable : No

Last Update by (administrator):

 Last Update Date/Time: 08/19/2007 02:59:05

  Begin Reclaim Period:

End Reclaim Period:

  Drive Encryption Key Manager:

 

I can't see any wrong here. I can run a Audit on the tape without any errors.

I got enough scratch tapes. Does anyone have any idea way TSM is acting like 
this?

 


Best Regards / Med Vänlig Hälsning


Christian Svensson


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